Free As In Freedom

Karen and Bradley interview Christopher Allan Webber of the GNU Mediagoblin project. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:31) Karen and Bradley introduce the interview. Segment 0 (00:56) Karen and Bradley interview their guest, Christopher Allan Webber of the GNU Mediagoblin project. GNU Mediagoblin is licensed under the Affero GPL, but does not require copyright assignment and the developers have no plans to seek a proprietary licensing business. Bradley mentioned this dent by Stephen Fry on identi.ca, but that was in fact not his last dent as Bradley said. (21:50) GNU Mediagoblin is working on a fundraising video and will start a new fundraising campaign soon. Chris discussed this comic about trolls that was part of the slides of Chris' OSCON talk. (27:07) Chris mentioned the Open Source Almost Everything essay from GitHub's founder. (28:30) Karen mentioned Mike Linksvayer's talk in FaiF 0x2E. (39:00) Segment 1 (43:36) G

Karen and Bradley discuss recent coverage of GNOME by the technology press, and more generally issues and concerns with the technology press. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:44) Bradley couldn't find support for his claim about in the can, and Karen may be right.(01:15) Bradley mentioned that the GNOME Foundation negative press recently is akin to what Harry Reid did by stating rumors regarding Romney's taxes. (05:03) Karen mentioned the Debunking Handbook that Germán Póo-Caamaño mentioned to her. (06:30) Bradley mentioned the quote I do not think [that word] means what you think it means from The Princess Bride. (13:30) Karen mentioned the GNOME 15 year Anniversary Site. (17:22) Bradley mentioned Dave Neary's GNOME census, and quoted numbers from the census. (21:30) Bradley discussed Eazel, a company co-founded by Andy Hertzfeld. (23:03) Karen mentioned GNOME's Outreach Program for Women, in which

Karen and Bradley discuss OSCON and GUADEC. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) Bradley represents FSF on the GNOME Advisory Board. (02:20) Bradley points out it's very dangerous when you can buy voting rights of a 501(c)(3) by paying money, such as the structure of OSI. Karen notes that contribution-based membership works very well for GNOME. (03:50) Bradley is concerned about the future of OSI's license list now that votes in OSI are for sale. (04:30) Bradley received an O'Reilly Open Source Award at OSCON 2012. Bradley blogged an acceptance speech for the award. (08:50) The Python award and the Perl White Camel award is also given at OSCON. (12:35) Karen mentioned FLOSS Foundations, and asked if there was a meeting at OSCON. Bradley mentioned it had been primarily rolled into Jono Bacon's CLS conference. (15:10) Segment 1 (17:56) Bradley wrote in a post about the GUADEC 2010 conference to note how welcoming th

Karen and Bradley play and discuss Mike Linksvayer's FOSDEM 2012 talk, Creative Commons 4.0 licenses and other opportunities for FLOSS/free culture legal/policy intersections from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:38) Bradley and Karen suggest that you use the slides below when listening to Mike's talk. Segment 1 (05:51) Mike Linksvayer's slides for this talk are available in PDF format and in ODP format. Segment 2 (33:43) Segment 3 (34:25) A special licensing message from Mike Linksvayer. Segment 4 (35:09) Karen mentioned Bradley's favorite movie, It's a Wonderful Life. Bradley mentioned Asheesh Laroia, who appears to never blogged about his CC/credit-card-thief freenode confusion story. (48:00) Bradley mentioned Fontana's Copyleft.next project . (50:00) Bradley mentioned the ST:TNG episode, Unification, Part II, although he kept calling it Reunification during the epis

Karen and Bradley discuss FSF's announcement of FSF's white paper on Restricted Boot, which critiques Red Hat's approach to restricted boot for its Fedora distribution and Canonical, Ltd.'s approach to restricted boot for its Ubuntu distribution. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:38) Karen mentioned it's useful that FSF avoids preloaded names. Bradley used FSF's criticism of the term “intellectual property” as an example of why it's important to avoid biased terminology. (02:22) Karen suggested that listeners may want to read FSF's white paper on Restricted Boot. (04:00) Bradley suggested also reading the Fedora statement and both Canonical, Ltd. statements. (04:37) Bradley and Karen mentioned the many blog posts Matthew Garrett made about UEFI are worth reading in sequence to learn more about this issue. (13:21) Bradley mentioned that FSF collaborated with the EFF on the broadcast flag issue. (25:40) Alan Cox made some criti

Karen and Bradley play and discuss Philippe Laurent's FOSDEM 2012 talk, Open Licences before European Courts from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) Karen and Bradley mention there is one talk remaining after this one from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom. Segment 1 (03:04) Philippe's slides are available from faif.us. Note: the slides are licensed differently than the show: they are CC-By-SA-3.0-Unported (rather than -USA). Segment 2 (32:22) Bradley mentioned FSF France's involvement with the AFPA case. (37:30) 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

Karen and Bradley interview Deb Nicholson of Open Invention Network, GNU MediaGoblin and Open Hatch. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) Karen announced her pregnancy. (01:50) Bradley will be at OSCON, Karen might be, and Karen will be at GUADEC. Bradley will be at LinuxCon North America and LinuxCon Europe. (03:00) Segment 1 (04:40) Deb Nicholson was previously on the show as Episode 0x25: FOSDEM 2012 Patents Panel. (06:00) Deb mentioned Linux System Definition, which is the OIN-published list of things that OIN members license their patents to each other on. (07:12) Deb and Bradley are debating Bradley's comment regarding Deb's points on the panel on 0x25. If you go back to listen to 0x25, the context for the comment they're debating starts around 38:00 in 0x25. (19:20) It's possible etymology of the verb “to harp” may indeed come from the musical instrument, not harpy. (31:00) Karen mentioned The Ada Ini

Karen and Bradley discuss Software Freedom Conservancy's announcement regarding its coordinated license compliance program. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) Karen and Bradley discuss Software Freedom Conservancy's announcement regarding its coordinated license compliance program. 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 Richard Fontana's Linux Collaboration Summit 2012 talk, The Decline of the GPL, and What To Do About It. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) Karen mentioned a legal summit where Richard and Karen spoke; the same event where the organizers said having Bradley speak would be the same as having the caterers speak. Segment 1 (04:46) Fontana's slides for this talk are available on Fontana's website. Note that this talk is a longer version of Ricahrd Fontana's FOSDEM 2012 talk, The (possible) decline of the GPL, and what to do about it from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom. Segment 2 (57:24) Bradley and Karen 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 Lync

Karen and Bradley play and discuss Loïc Dachary's FOSDEM 2012 talk, Can for-profit companies enforce copyleft without becoming corrupt like MySQL AB? from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:35) Bradley and Karen discuss FOSDEM again. Segment 1 (10:10) Unfortunately, we don't have Loïc's slides. Segment 2 (32:03) Bradley and Karen comment on Loïc'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 Allison Randal's FOSDEM 2012 talk, FLOSSing for Good Legal Hygiene: Stories from the Trenches from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:35) Bradley talked about the #faif IRC conversation regarding hot milk recipe and its copyright. (01:54) Segment 1 (07:10) Allison's slides are available from faif.us. Segment 2 (35:00) Karen and Bradley discussed the insanely complicated poster that Eclipse developers have to put on their walls to know how to accept patches (37:40) RMS's GNU Project essay talks about the Qt problem. (39:16) Bradley mentioned Chris Hertel's appearance on Linux Outlaws.(44:25) Karen mentioned The Scientific American article entitled Secret Computer Code Threatens Science. (54:00) Bradley mentioned Roland McGrath (56:44) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <[email protected]>. You can keep in touch with Free as

Karen and Bradley play and discuss Michael Meeks's FOSDEM 2012 talk, Risks and Benefits of Copyright Assignment from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:35) Bradley and Karen introduce Michael's talk. Segment 1 (01:56) Michael's slides are available from faif.us and from his blog post on the talk. Segment 2 (26:47) Bradley mentioned GNU Mediagoblin as an example of a true upstream multi-copyright-holder AGPLv3'd project. (28:10) Bradley mentioned that LibreOffice is “wealthy” as well by Michael Meeks standards, given their successful fundraisers. (29:38) Bradley mentioned the Desktop Summit panel that he and Michael were on and Karen moderated. (34:06) Bradley and Michael co-authored (with Vincent Untz) the GNOME Copyright Assignment Guidelines. (35:30) FSF was previously supportive of MySQL AB back in 2002, but Michael also used to support the Sun JCA. (38

Karen and Bradley play and discuss Panel on Patents, moderated by Karen Sandler, with Ciarán O'Riordan, Benjamin Henrion, and Deb Nicholson from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:35) This American Life issued a retraction of the story we mentioned on 0x24. This American Life released a transcript or mp3 of the audio of the retraction. (02:21) Karen and Bradley introduce the panel. Segment 1 (03:58) This is the recording of the panel. Some of the questions aren't completely audible, but Dan did a pretty good job boosting it in places. Segment 2 (32:21) IBM's amicus brief in Bilski clearly shows that IBM is pro-software patent. (33:48) The Linux System Definition which defines the only patents available for licensing by OIN licensees, was unilaterally updated recently without consulting the Free Software community. Keith Bergelt of OIN will speak at Linux Collabora

Karen and Bradley play and discuss Panel on Application Stores, moderated by Richard Fontana, with Giovanni Battista Gallus, Bradley M. Kuhn, and Hugo Roy from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:34) Karen and Bradley introduce the panel. Segment 1 (02:15) This is the recording of the panel. Some of the questions aren't completely audible, but Dan did a pretty good job boosting it in places. Segment 2 (35:04) Bradley mentioned This American Life, Episode 454, that covered issues of labor that is abused to build our electronics. You can read a transcript or download an mp3 of the audio. (43:27) 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

Karen and Bradley play and discuss John Sullivan's talk entitled Is Copyleft Being Framed? from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:34) Dave Neary wrote an article based on his FOSDEM talk, and we're trying our best to fix the audio and have a FaiFCast of his talk, but it may not be salvagable. Segment 1 (06:35) Follow along with John's slides from his FOSDEM talk. Segment 1 (37:23) John referenced the source Black Duck numbers for which there is no methodology posted (38:30) Bradley mentioned Chris DiBona's keynote at OSCON 2010. (39:14) John mentioned the FLOSS Mole project in his talk. (42:50) 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 danl

Karen and Bradley play and discuss Ambjörn Elder's talk entitled Methods of FOSS Activism from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:35) Bradley and Karen summarize some of the logistics of FOSDEM. Segment 1 (08:08) You can follow along with Ambjörn's slides for his talk while you listen. Segment 2 (24:04) Bradley mentioned Terry Bollinger's report, Use of Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense. (26:13) Karen quoted the USA DoD in her Killed by Code paper. (28:04) EFF has engaged lobbyist in the past on some issues. (29:58) Bradley mentioned Noam Chomsky's point regarding concision. (35:32) 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 produc

Bradley and Karen discuss Jacob Appelbaum's talk at Linux Conf Australia 2012, as well as other conference talks. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:35) Bradley spoke at SCALE, but the talk was very similar to the talk given on 0x18. (07:15)

Bradley and Karen discuss issues of gender inequality in the software freedom community and technology generally. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:38) Bradley and Karen discuss issues of gender inequality in the software freedom community and technology generally. Bradley wrote a blog post a while back noting that issues of gender inequality are technology-sector-wide, as shown on PDF page 10 of this study. However, Bradley incorrectly remembered the study: in fact, all levels of academic computer science are (23:19) Karen got a 5 on our Calculus AB exam, even though her teacher told her only boys were good at math. Bradley also got a 5 on the Calculus AB exam. (27:06) Bradley believes that Stand and Deliver. (29:37) Bradley is sure there is no Calculus in Good Will Hunting (30:08) Bradley mentioned that S05E11 of American Greed contained an rsync output on a Debian system and Python DBUS binding C code as “code cracking e

Karen and Bradley discuss the various private Free Software legal fora and consider if a more open community for discussion might be better, and also discuss the just-ended CFP for the FOSDEM Legal and Policy Issues Dev Room. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:37) Bradley and Karen were discussing the NYS charities filing requirements for auditing and limited review, as can be seen NYS CHAR-500 instructions, on page 5 of 6, §V(6) . (03:02) Bradley and Karen mentioned the old show, SFLS 0x19, where they discussed Conservancy's FY 2008 Form 990. (03:27) Bradley mentioned he still works at a cow-orking facility (04:15) Bradley mentioned that various charity rating sites like Charity Navigator and GuideStar. (05:58) Bradley mentioned Lawrence Welk (09:50) Bradley is speaking on GPL enfoircement at SCALE 10x. keynoting on Thursday 19 January 2012 at Linux Conf Australia 2012. Bradley doesn't like the Chatham House Rule. (20:30

Karen and Bradley discuss recent debates about the value of non-profit organizations for Free Software. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:34) Fontana (and other Red Hat employees) pointed out some imprecision in what Bradley said in Episode 0x1D about Debian non-free. (01:07) A call for participation has been announced for the Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom at FOSDEM 2012. Please submit a proposal by 30 December 2011 (04:30) A recent debate about non-profits started, initiated by a blog post called Apache Considered Harmful. (12:55) Karen and Bradley briefly mentioned that some now believe that Considered Harmful Considered Harmful (13:16) A long thread on this issue occurred on the FLOSS Foundations mailing list (13:45) Bradley made an official Conservancy Blog post about the value of non-profits for Free Software (14:17) Sourceforge became proprietary software in 2001, as is well-described in this by The Sourceforge