Free As In Freedom

Bradley and Karen give a basic introduction of copyright licensing of Open Source and Free Software. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:35) Bradley mentioned the phrase “fixed in a tangible medium” which appears in the USA copyright law. (03:10) Bradley mentioned the Sherman Antitrust act. (04:05) Bradley mentioned the card game Pit (04:15) Bradley jokingly quoted Mit Romney's famous gaffe, “Corporations are people, my friend.” (04:44) Bradley read Title 17, the USA Copyright act many times. (06:50) Bradley mentioned the court case, UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. v. Berkeley Software Design, Inc., which resulted in releasing the parts of BSD that could be Free Software. (12:27) Bradley mentioned the FSF's Free Software Definition (13:11) Bradley mentioned OSI's Open Source Definition (13:16) Apparently, the problem of categorization is called Categorization in Philosophy. (14:30) The issue of Open Source not being trademarked is discussed in this essay by