Free As In Freedom

Karen interviews Stefano Zacchiroli, who is the current Debian Project Leader. Karen and Bradley discuss their thoughts on that interview. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) Karen interviewed Stefano Zacchiroli, who is the current Debian Project Leader. (02:59) Segment 1 (03:58) Stefano was inspired by a professor at his university to get involved with Free Software, because you can study the sources. (04:50) DPL reelection is in April each year. (08:40) Stefano discovered that some Debian derivatives weren't distributing source packages. He's helped them get into compliance, although Stefano hesitates to call it enforcement. (12:40) Stefano mentioned that many Debian contributors begin contributing upstream to Debian after contributing to derivatives of Debian first. (15:20) Stefano thinks the adoption of Free Software on the desktop is shrinking, and many users are using proprietary software “cloud” se

Karen interviews Adam Dingle of Yorba, and Bradley and Karen briefly discuss the interview. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:33) The interview is with Adam Dingle of Yorba. (02:30) Segment 1 (02:45) Yorba was founded in January 2009. (04:01) Yorba applied for 501(c)(3) status nearly two years ago and the application is still pending in the queue (the same delay queue we discussed in Episode 0x13. (28:30) Adam mentioned Yorba's donation page. (30:13) Segment 2 (41:08) Karen mentioned that Yorba's response to the IRS should be published soon. (41:35) Bradley mentioned Cat Allman's Fundraising 101 talk from OSCON. (43:30) 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

Bradley and Karen discuss their jobs, particularly fundraising, and plans for future shows. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) The Google Summer of Code Program is large philanthropic program by Google for students to write Free Software in the summer. Bradley gave a talk about non-profit organizations at the Google SoC Mentor Summit 2011 Karen mentioned the GNOME Women's Outreach Program, which coordinates with the SoC, and the Season of KDE. (09:36) Conservancy's Amarok, Mercurial and PyPy projects are all currently doing fundraising programs (14:38) Bradley will give two talks at LinuxCon Europe this week. (15:15) Karen will attend the Ubuntu Developer Summit. (20:20) Karen will speak in Latvia later this year. (24:20) Richard Fontana discussed RMS' quote about Jobs on identi.ca (26:27) Segment 1 (29:28) We'll try to record some talks/interviews at upcoming events. Send feedback and comments on the cas

Bradley and Karen discuss the various news and comments on Steve Jobs' death and his legacy, and their own thoughts on the issue. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) Bradley still hasn't made the blog post he keeps saying he'll make about one year at Conservancy. (01:30 Bradley mentioned the character Cat from Red Dwarf's obsession with “shiny things” in the episode Waiting for God. (20:23) Segment 1 (21:12) Karen mentioned Paula Rooney's article Steve Jobs: an open source pioneer? You bet, which Bradley pointed out was a pure link-bait. (21:20) Bradley mention Andy Rooney has retired (32:10) Segment 1 (33:40) Bradley mentioned RMS' comments on Steve Jobs' death (34:09) Bradley mentioned the gawker article that was critical of Steve Jobs Bradley mentioned a comment that discussed how RMS' lack of tact can help software freedom. (40:43) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <

Karen and Bradley discuss the GNOME 3.2 release, Karen interviews Jos Poortvliet, Bradley complains about identi.ca web interface and they discuss together UEFI “secure” boot, and the PyPy Python 3 campaign. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:40) Bradley wrote a blog post about how GNOME 3 is not for him. Segment 1 (07:14) Karen interviewed Jos Poortvliet Segment 2 (21:04) Bradley mentioned Shaun McCance's post to desktop-devel about response bias, which he posted on user survey thread. (25:04) Karen mentioned that GNOME 3.2 has been released with new features, such as better window resizing. (28:57) Bradley pointed out that gnats was one of the earliest Free Software bug tracking systems. (30:37) Segment 3 (31:53) Bradley mentioned that he feels like the unfrozen caveman lawyer when trying to use identi.ca now. (32:54) Bradley mentioned Matthew Garrett's blog post about UEFI so-called

Bradley and Karen play a speech recording of Bradley's presentation at OSCON 2011, entitled 12 Years of FLOSS License Compliance: A Historical Perspective. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) Bradley mentioned that time travel requires special verb tenses according to the Douglas Adams' book, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. (01:48) Bradley gave a keynote at Ohio Linux Fest 2011 (01:58) Segment 1 (05:02) This segment is a recording of Bradley's OSCON 2011 talk, entitled 12 Years of Copyleft License Compliance: A Historical Perspective. The slides are available on Bradley's website so you can follow along during the talk if you like. There is a live denting identi.ca thread from Bradley's talk. (03:50) Bradley wrote a blog post about a minor GPL violation in the Emacs codebase. It has since been fixed. RMS mentioned the NeXT/Objective C GPL violation in his essay, Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism. Segmen

Bradley and Karen play a speech recording of Richard Fontana's presentation at OSCON 2011, entitled Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful. Note: this show and the slides from Richard Fontana are licensed under CC-By-SA-3.0 USA. This will be the new license of the show for this and future episodes. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:34) This show is a recording of Richard Fontana's talk Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful. (03:13) Segment 1 (03:34) Richard Fontana has made his slides from his talk available on his website. Bradley live-dented Fontana's talk from OSCON. Richard Fontana references Michael Meeks' essay, Some thoughts on Copyright Assignment (29:55) Segment 2 (45:17) Bradley and Karen were on a panel discussion on copyright assignment at Desktop Summit. (45:33) Bradley mentioned that Mark Shuttleworth's obsession with cadence had a similar weird effect on a different debate. (58:30)

Bradley and Karen play and comment on a talk recording of Aaron Williamson's and Karen's presentation at OSCON 2011, entitled Legal Basics for Developers. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:33) Bradley mentioned the birthday attack when explaining to Karen how likely it might be that the number of the show might match the number of the day. (01:38) This show is a recording of Aaron and Karen's OSCON 2011 talk, Legal Basics for Developers. (02:20) Segment 1 (05:53) The slides for the Legal Basics for Developers are available to follow along with the recording (05:53) Segment 2 (49:36) Richard Fontana gave at a talk at OSCON as well, which was recorded, and Karen and Bradley have asked for his permission to play it. (50:45) Bradley asked folks to ping Richard on identi.ca to ask him to allow us to use his audio on the oggcast. (51:05) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <[email protected]>. You can keep

Karen and Bradley discuss Karen's OSCON keynote and her 2011 O'Reilly Open Source Award, as well as other happenings from OSCON. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:35) Bradley and Karen just returned from the 2011 O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention (OSCON). (00:45) Karen received one of the 2011 O'Reilly Open Source Awards. (Video of the award ceremony is online.) (03:05) Karen now has a blog called GNOMG. (05:03) Karen's wrote a blog post about winning the 2011 Open Source Award. (03:47) Karen now has a redirector to her blog via gnomg.org. (05:42) Listener Michael Dexter let Bradley stay at his house for part of the time of OSCON, and Bradley later shared a room with listener Richard Fontana. (06:40) Segment 1 (10:22) Karen keynoted at OSCON, entitled Software Freedom: From my Heart to the Desktop. (10:22) Bradley had a live-denting thread of Karen's keynote at OSCON 2011. Karen's 2011 OSCON keynote is availabl

Karen and Bradley briefly discuss and play Bradley's keynote at the Sixth Annual OpenFOAM Conference. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:38) Bradley spoke at the Sixth Annual OpenFOAM workshop. (01:42) Segment 1 (03:20) Follow along with Bradley's slides from his talk at the Sixth Annual OpenFOAM Workshop (03:22) The sources for the slides is available. Segment 2 (53:12) Karen and Bradley discussed the talk. Bill Gates' arrest in New Mexico (Bradley incorrectly said Nevada) is discussed in Gates' Wikipedia entry. (55:20) Bradley mentioned the made-for-TV movie The Pirates of Silicon Valley. (56:26) 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

Karen and Bradley discuss the USAmerican legal system in regard to torts, and the current delays from the USA IRS on 501(c)(3) non-profit applications (i.e., Form 1023s). Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:48) Billy Crook wrote in to make a good joke about 0x12 being the last episode available in other RSS feeds. (Don't forget the right RSS feed is at faif.us.) Karen calls tortes delicious pastries. Bradley saw a documentary called Hot Coffee, which discussed the idea of tort deform. (03:35, 05:45) Bradley mentioned that Karl Rove, George W. Bush's political operative, was involved in early tort “reform”. (06:54) Brendan Scott is a lawyer in Australia, who has published about GPL enforcement and writes a blog about legal issues related to Open Source and Free Software (11:58) Segment 1 (12:50) Bradley talked about 501(c)(3) status and Form 1023s in his interview on FLOSS weekly. (13:50) Around 2010, appli

Karen announces her new job, and Bradley and Karen discuss the recent USA Supreme Court decisions on patents. Be sure to make sure you're subscribed to feeds available on faif.us if you haven't already! Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:37) If you have not moved your RSS feed already away from softwarefreedom.org, and to faif.us, you should do that now! Here's links to the ogg RSS feed and mp3 RSS feed. New FaiF shows won't appear on softwarefreedom.org. Karen is now the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. (04:30) Bradley served on the GNOME Foundation Executive Director Hiring Committee, but resigned when Karen became a serious candidate. (05:13) Karen will continue as General Counsel of Question Copyright, and pro-bono counsel to Software Freedom Conservancy, and will also continue pro bono on some matters for SFLC. (06:30) Bradley has been working on GNU Bash. (07:34) Berlin's Tegel airport is closing soon. (14:40)

Dan Lynch (filling in for Karen) and Bradley discuss a few examples where licensing decisions by companies impacts the health of the software development community. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:36) Dan interviewed the CentOS developers on FLOSS Weekly. (00:05:52) Bradley has a blog post that describes RHEL licensing model. His previous blog post to that one, while mostly off-topic here, has a few points of interest. (00:10:36) Dan Lynch mentioned The Smoking Man from the The X Files television series. (00:17:22) Bradley mentioned that Lennart Poettering is a Red Hat employee working on systemd, which is now in Fedora, but not in RHEL yet (as far as we know). (00:18:53) Bradley suggested that developers starting projects read Karsten Wade's The Open Source Way, and Karl Fogel's Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project, and Bradley's blog post about developing in public. (00:22:16) Dan

Dan Lynch (filling in for Karen) and Bradley play and discuss Matthew Garrett's talk GPL Violations: What Are We Doing? (aka Linux License Violations) from the Linux Collaboration Summit 2011. If you want to listen to only the off-topic parts of this oggcast, please download the

This episode is a recording of Jeremy Allison's talk, Why Samba Switched to GPLv3 from the 2011 Linux Collaboration Summit, with some commentary from Bradley and Karen on the talk. Show Notes: Ironically (or perhaps appropriately), Bradley was at Samba XP with Jeremy the day this show was released. So, there he wasn't able to get show notes together in detail for this show. However, Jeremy's slides from the talk are available (in PDF), and also ODP format. So, you can follow along with it in the talk. Also, you may be interested to read Bradley live-dent'd Jeremy's talk, so the discussion there might be useful to read as well. 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

This episode is a recording of Richard Fontana's talk, Open Source Projects and Corporate Entanglement from the 2011 Linux Collaboration Summit, with some commentary from Bradley and Karen on the talk. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:34) Bradley is still recovering from a rhinovirus which he didn't take care of and also made him sicker, which explains the problems with his voice. In fact, the coughing in the background during Fontana's talk is all Bradley. He apologizes. (00:50) This show is Richard Fontana's Linux Collaboration Summit 2011 talk, Open Source Projects and Corporate Entanglement. (03:24) Segment 1 (03:48) Richard Fontana's slides for his talk, Open Source Projects and Corporate Entanglement are available on his website. (04:29) Bradley was live-denting Fontana's LCS talk. (04:31) Richard Fontana is the purveyor of the disturbing group on identi.ca. (04:30) Fontana makes reference to a Bradley's blog post on swi

This episode is a recording of Karen's talk, Sign on the Dotted Line: NDAs and Free and Open Source Software from the 2011 Linux Collaboration Summit. Show Notes: Segment 1 (01:33) You can download a copy of Karen's slides from the talk if you'd like to follow along. Here's a listener donated transcription of one of the questions: [23:14] [indistinct] Signed up [indistinct] At Google you can opt out. Some of the people are You cannot actually [indistinct] [29:53] On some NDAs you can have sections that say you are not allowed to use open source software and not allowed to write open source software, but the company is hiring you to do exactly this. [30:12] In NDAs. I'm a consultant, and so I get a lot of NDAs on my desk. I know at least 5 large semiconductor companies who have this paragraph inside that forbid you to look at open source software and its clear that open source software is a clause for the death penalty when they're hiring you as a consultant to write drivers in

Bradley and Karen discuss two debates going on in the free and open source software community. One recent and seemingly inflated, and one long and confusing. Show Notes: Segment 1 (03:12) Bradley wrote a blog post about the Bionic issues that were raised. (03:44) On the old oggcast, Karen and Bradley discussed the Android/Linux system and Bionic specifically. (04:09) Karen mentioned an old oggcast where permissive vs. copyleft licensing was discussed. (06:19) Jake Edge wrote an LWN article that discussed Bionic (07:58) Bradley mentioned Raymond Nimmer's blog that started the debate (10:52) Bradley also mentioned Edward Naughton's blog post and paper on Bionic. (11:38) Raymond Nimmer is not David Nimmer, who is known for writings on copyright (18:10) There is now an disturbing group on identica, which is more disturbing than a tag about disturbing. (19:15) Joe Brockmeier did some research on Edward Naughton's

Bradley and Karen have an introductory discussion on how non-profit governance interacts with Free Software projects and what issues are important for developers who want their project to have a non-profit existence. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:37) Bradley and Karen began the discussion by commenting on this blog post by Andy Updegrove about non-profit governance. (01:50) Bradley and Karen tend to agree that non-profit settings are better places to foster and help Free Software development. (03:40) Bradley mentioned that Roland McGrath wrote GNU C Library (and other GNU programs) while working as an employee at the FSF, and many of those programs are now often maintained by Red Hat (or other company's) developers, under the auspices of the GNU project, as overseen by the FSF. (04:50) Corporate form and organization questions should be secondary to project leadership ones. (09:50) One of the most important things is to have an organization in a

Bradley and Karen discussed the Windows Phone 7 Application Store terms and conditions which prohibit GPL'd and other copylefted software in the application store. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:35) Karen and Bradley discussed the Microsoft Phone Marketplace agreement, which was heavily covered in news and blogs. (02:50) Karen quoted directly from the § 1(l) from the Windows Phone Marketplace Application Provider Agreement (03:20) Bradley credited Jello Biafra with coining the term “punditocracy”, but it seems to have been first used by Charles Reynell in The Economist in 1989 and popularized by Eric Alterman in his 1992 book, Sound & Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy. Bradley mentioned the brouhaha about the order of succession after Regan was shot in 1981. (Bradley incorrectly said 1980 on the show.) (09:47) Karen and Bradley previously discussed the Apple Online Store agreement on FaiF Episode