Free As In Freedom

Bradley and Karen discuss the details, what to worry about, and what the usual duties are when serving on a Board of Directors for a USA non-profit. The discussion is primarily about 501(c)(3) organizations, but at the end they spend some time discussing 501(c)(6) organizations as well. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:44) An image of Alfie chewing on the antler (01:22) Karen is running for the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors. (05:15) Bradley once criticized the CNRI OPEN SOURCE LICENSE AGREEMENT (used for parts of Python), because it is governed by the laws of a place that doesn't exist. (06:48) Bradley mentioned a Planet Money episode that talked about it's “too easy” to incorporate in Delaware (23:50) Segment 1 (00:32:25) Bradley and Karen discuss various additional things about being on a Board of Directors, including why and how you might be able to serve on one. Bradley and Karen discuss the requirements f

Bradley and Karen explain why they've been gone for so long, and then discuss the recent Oracle v. Google Federal Appeals Court Decision. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:31) Karen is now Executive Director of Conservancy and Bradley is President and Distinguished Technologist. (03:01) Bradley will be working extensively on the NPO Accounting Project. (03:40) Segment 1 (00:09:37) Karen says the Oracle v. Google Federal Appeals Court Decision is not an engaging read, but the lower court decision was. (09:50) Karen said: You're out of your element, Donny! (12:38) Karen mentioned a tweet from the EFF (15:23) Bradley mentioned his older blog post about the previous decision (16:48) Karen incorrectly said we never recorded a show on the previous decision, but we did indeed discuss the previous Oracle v. Google decision in , which Bradley and Karen discussed in Episode 0x35 (18:53) Karen and Bradley explained what an affirmative defense

Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss John Sullivan's talk from FOSDEM 2013, entitled State of the GNUnion. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:33) Karen and Bradley introduce the talk. Segment 1 (00:01:58) The slides for John's talk are available, and the source of those slides is available too. Segment 1 (00:54:31) Bradley mentioned RMS' essay, Who Does That Server Really Serve? (01:08:55) Segment 2 (01:14:53) Private Internet Access became a new GNOME Advisory Board Member. Send feedback and comments on the cast to <[email protected]>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are license

Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Jean-Baptiste Kempf's talk from FOSDEM 2013, entitled Relicensing libVLC and VLC modules from GPL to LGPL. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:28) The plural of hiatus appears to be hiatukset, but hiatuses is the proper English. (01:50) Bradley adopted two dogs from a shelter. They like kongs (02:30) Bradley's wife has a blog with pictures of their dogs. (04:30) Segment 1 (00:05:52) Jean-Baptiste Kempf slides are available for this talk. Segment 2 (01:03:20) Bradley had written a a blog post about the VLC relicensing. (01:03:48) Bradley mentioned a an article in The Onion about pugs known health problems (01:15:47) Karen mentioned The Last GUADEC blog post. Segment 3 (01:21:00) Bradley and Karen discussed the release of the ExFAT Samsung source code. Send feedback and comments on the cast to <[email protected]>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our

Bradley and Karen interview Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the The Linux Foundation. Show Notes: Bradley and Karen interview Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the The Linux Foundation. Segment 0 (00:00:33) Bradley and Karen introduce the interview. Segment 1 (00:03:03) Bradley and Karen interview Jim Zemlin. Segment 2 (00:25:23) Karen and Bradley wrap up the discussion about 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(6). Bradley referenced this post which ocurred in this thread about Linus saying Greg KH is a door-mat. (26:36, 34:55) The OSCON session that Bradley chaired was Non-Profits Organizations for FLOSS Projects: There Is No Place Like Home, and the slides are available. (33:21) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <[email protected]>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch

Note: initially, from 2013-08-01 18:30 through 2013-08-02 08:40 (US/Eastern), the audio file links in the feed did not work. That has been corrected. Bradley and Karen interview Alison Chaiken about Free Software in cars. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:38) Bradley and Karen introduce the interview. Segment 1 (00:01:43) Bradley and Karen interview Alison Chaiken about Free Software in the automotive industry. Alison mentioned the Genivi Alliance, which is an industry trade association with some interest in “Open Source”. Alison presented a session at LibrePlanet about the Right to Repair act in Massachusetts. (00:14:30) Alison encouraged listens to get involved with Right to Repair and the Massachusetts Right to Repair. Segment 2 (00:36:09) Karen moderated a panel at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit 2013 on Automotive issues (37:12) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <[email protected]>. You can

Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss The panel discussion on the GNU Affero General Public License from FOSDEM 2013. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:38) Bradley asked for donations again to Conservancy's NPO accounting software campaign and Karen asked for donations to GNOME's Privacy Campaign. Segment 1 (00:04:50) This is the Panel Discussion: GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 from FOSDEM 2013. The speakers, in the order their voices are heard, are Tom Marble (introduction), Richard Fontana (moderator), Bradley M. Kuhn, Eileen Evans, and Christopher Allan Webber. Segment 2 (01:06:47) Bradley mentioned the phrase Give me convenience or give me death, which is from a title of the Dead Kennedys album he suggested applied to the selection of proprietary software (01:10:10) Bradley mentioned RMS' recent update to his Who does that server really serve? essay. (01:11:30) Bradley mentioned his blog post o

Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Gervase Markham's talk from FOSDEM 2013, entitled Mozilla: Licensing In The Trenches. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:34) Bradley encouraged listeners to Conservancy's campaign for non-profit accounting software. (02:10) Bradley mentioned his 2009 blog post encouraging people to donate to Free Software charities (02:50) Karen asked people to donate to the GNOME Foundation privacy campaign (04:11) Segment 1 (00:04:57) Gerv's slides from his FOSDEM 2013 talk can be downloaded from FOSDEM's website. Segment 2 (00:51:48) Bradley and Karen discuss Gerv's talk. Send feedback and comments on the cast to <[email protected]>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Cha

Karen and Bradley discuss the sexist comment issue that occurred a few months ago at PyCon USA 2013. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:34) Bradley and Karen previously discussed conference behavior back in Episode 0x04. Bradley had blogged a few years ago about the issues of sexism through the computer industry, including this study showing the glass ceiling in CS academics. (05:17) Bradley mentioned that he'd blogged in the past that proprietary software companies also have issues of sexism at conferences (05:58) Bradley mentioned the How to Perform Like a Porn Star CouchDB talk at a Ruby Conference (06:13) There is indeed a Project named PyCorn. (09:38) Bradley mentioned the Planet Money story about Online Pharmacies but he couldn't find the original audio of the longer piece that ends with the phrase Stay Shady, Internet (21:30) Bradley mentioned a quote about the human mind being the most dangerous thing because everyth

Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Pamela Chestek's talk from FOSDEM 2013, entitled How to Share a Trademark. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:33) Karen and Bradley introduce the talk. Segment 0 (00:02:05) Pam gave us slides, but it's all in one big SVG. Segment 2 (00:55:10) The talk that Bradley mentioned was this talk that Karen gave at Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit 2012; he was unable to find a recording. (57:04) Note that most of the time the word source was used in the talk and Karen's comments, it means origin, not source code. (01:05:55) Bradley mentioned this Planet Money story about the 5¢ coke. (01:21:37) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <[email protected]>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme musi

Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Simon Phipps' and Amanda Brock's talk from FOSDEM 2013, entitled Should We Embrace App Stores?. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:33) Karen and Bradley introduce the talk. Segment 1 (00:03:03) Simon and Amanda used no slides during their talk. Amanda misquotes Bradley at 07:30. Bradley said: An unenforced copyleft is the moral equivalent of a permissive license, not that you give a license automatically not by enforcing. You can listen to FaiF Episode 0x38 to verify. Segment 1 (00:49:35) Bradley and Karen discuss the talk. Send feedback and comments on the cast to <[email protected]>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. Th

Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Gabriel Holloway's talk from FOSDEM 2013, entitled FOSS code goes in and never comes out: The Challenge of Sandboxed Proprietary Cloud Services. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:33) Karen and Bradley introduce the talk. Segment 1 (00:05:48) The speaker's that you hear are: Gabriel Holloway, who gives the talk Till Jaeger asks the first question. A few other questions are asked, but we're unsure who the speakers are. Tom Marble, asks a question later. Unfortunately, Gabe didn't provide us with slides. Segment 2 (00:52:25) Bradley mentioned the Berne Convention on Copyright. (01:07:19) Karen mentioned Cooper Union and how they are in danger of running out of money for their full tuition scholarships. (01:10:00) Bradley looked but couldn't find the NPR story about terms of use. (01:19:37) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@

Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Till Jaeger's talk from FOSDEM 2013, entitled What is a derivative work under European Copyright Law?. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:31) Karen and Bradley introduce the talk. Segment 2 (00:02:41) The speaker's that you hear are: Tom Marble, introduces the talk, and asks one of the questions. Till Jaeger, who gives the talk The slides for Till Jaeger's talk are available. Segment 2 (00:49:11) Bradley and Karen discuss Till's talk. Clarence Thomas spoke the first time in the Supreme Court. Bradley said that he said it did not, but apparently he actually said he did not. (59:49) Bradley scanned in his Brussels airport train ticket that had his notes on it, where you can read noa push caa. (01:06:40) Bradley mentioned the phrase Elvis has left the building. (01:07:15) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <[email protected]>. You can keep i

Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss the GPL Compliance Panel from FOSDEM 2013. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:34) Karen and Bradley have some not-so-witty banter about the FOSDEM 2013 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom. Segment 1 (00:07:19) The speakers on the panel are (in order of appearance): Tom Marble, introduces the panel. Karen Sandler, moderator. Alexios Zavras Richard Sands Bradley M. Kuhn Harald Welte Segment 2 (01:02:51) Bradley mentioned the Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons, but incorrectly said he didn't have an actual name, which he does (Jeff Albertson) (01:05:30) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <[email protected]>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with

Karen and Bradley discuss the LWN article, GnuTLS, copyright assignment, and GNU project governance and other issues related to copyright assignment. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:46) Bradley didn't want his words compared to the Ayn Rand's quote from an interview with Phil Donahue where she said I'm not going to die, it's just that world will end. (02:54) Bradley discussed the reaction to on 0x36 that occurred in this identi.ca thread. (04:20) Bradley and Karen discussed the LWN article, GnuTLS, copyright assignment, and GNU project governance. (11:15) Bradley pointed out that every other copyleft license allows for relicensing under newer versions automatically (i.e., they have an automatic -or-later ), and Karen asked whether Sun's CDDL does. Bradley checked later, Karen was correct that CDDL's later version clause (Section 4) is similar to the GPL policy. (23:00) However, Fontana wrote to us on IRC to say CDDL's license upgradeability clause is not entirely

Karen and Bradley discuss RMS' essay on FSF's website, Ubuntu SpyWare: What To Do, and Shuttleworth's Slashdot interview that responds somewhat to RMS' comments. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) Karen and Bradley discuss RMS' essay on FSF's website, Ubuntu SpyWare: What To Do (08:50) Bradley mentioned how Fab discovered (and discussed on Linux Outlaws 280) how a search for “ter” in efforts to find a terminal window in Ubuntu yields [slightly NSFW] gives results for Rachel Ter Horst DVDs. (09:44) Bradley mentioned his blog post about Nokia's problems interfacing with Free Software communities. (14:50) Bradley and Karen discuss Shuttleworth's Slashdot interview (18:25). Bradley and Karen also briefly mentioned Jono Bacon's comments about RMS's essay and Jono's apology. (19:30) Bradley mentioned Shuttleworth's comments during his LinuxCon 2011 keynote. (20:14) Bradley mentioned Douglas Rushkoff's article, Teach U.S. kids to write compute

Karen and Bradley discuss the copyright decision in the Oracle vs. Google case. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:33) Bradley mentioned the BPM for the human heart is to the Bee Gee's song, STayin' Alive. (01:55) FaiF's bandwidth is provided by OSU-OSL. Please donate to OSU-OSL. (09:50) Bradley and Karen discuss the copyright decision in the Oracle vs. Google case. (12:26) Bradley couldn't find quickly a full telling of the windings/SCO font thing, but this blog mentions it (29:34) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <[email protected]>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Crea

Karen gives an update on the advocacy of software freedom for medical devices, while Bradley continually takes the show off-topic. Show Notes: Bradley mentioned Jimmy Fallon's … And We're Back script. Barnaby Jack showed lethal attacks exist on wireless devices. (06:25) Karen previously gave a talk about her heart condition on the show. (07:13) Hugo Campos, who also works on this issue. (26:08) Bradley mentioned the Therac-25 software-related disaster. (29:30) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <[email protected]>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Cr

Karen and Bradley play and discuss Richard Fontana's LinuxCon North America 2012 talk, The Tragedy of the Commons Gatekeepers. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:33) Bradley and Karen introduce Richard Fontana's talk. Segment 1 (02:48) Richard Fontana's slides are available online, and there is also a well-written summary of the talk available on LWN. Segment 2 (47:15) Karen and Bradley discuss Fontana's talk. Send feedback and comments on the cast to <[email protected]>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Karen and Bradley play and discuss Matthew Garrett's talk, Linux in a UEFI Secure Boot World talk from LinuxCon North America 2012. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:34) Bradley mentioned that people at LinuxCon North America 2012 were talking about this article, wherein it states 51% of survey respondents believe [bad] weather can impact cloud computing. Bradley and Karen pointed out all the many ways that it can, such as if your services come via satellite links. (02:10) Bradley mentioned Matthew's talk might be best listened to before our earlier FaiFCast 0x2d about UEFI and Restricted Boot, as Matthew's talk is a very good introduction to that material (07:01) Segment 1 (08:43) The slides from Matthew Garrett's LinuxCon North America 2012 talk, Linux in a UEFI Secure Boot World are available. Segment 2 (51:35) Karen song a part of one of the OpenBSD songs, E-Railed (OpenBSD Mix). (01:00:35) Bradley mentioned Theo de Raadt's c