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0x5C: Basic FLOSS Concepts: Licensing 101

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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 Richard Stallman. (15:44)
  • The basic categorizations of types of FLOSS licenses are copyleft and non-copyleft.
  • Karen suggests reading GPLv2 and GPLv3. (39:31)
  • Bradley made a crude
    • drawing of the spectrum of licenses. (40:20)
  • Bradley mentioned the The
    • Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement (55:40)

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