Free As In Freedom

Episode 0x11: Corporate Licensing Decisions That Impact the Project's Community

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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