Free as in Freedom

0x6A: Live Show from SeaGL 2019

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The first live podcast of Free as in Freedom, hosted at SeaGL

2019 in November 2019. Hear questions from the studio audience and
answers from Bradley and Karen.

Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:38)

Producer Dan speaks on mic to introduce that this is a live show.

Segment 1 (01:17)
  • This is a live show from SeaGL 2019, a
    • community-organized FaiP
    (02:15)
  • Carol Smith from Microsoft asked about being a charity in the USA
    • under recent tax changes regarding tax deduction and, and asked about Conservancy's
    annual fundraiser which had completed by the time this show
    was released. (04:53)
  • Deb took a photo during the show (07:30)
  • A questioner asked about the so-called “ethical but-non-FOSS
    • licenses”. Bradley gave an answer that is supplemented well by
    this blog post (10:15) and Karen mentioned at CopyleftConf
    2020 there was a discussion about this. (15:15) The follow up question
    was also related to these topics (15:44).
  • Eric Hopper asked about how Conservancy decides when a project joins,
    • and what factors Conservancy considers in projects joining (18:14)
  • A written questioner asked how to handle schools requiring proprietary
    • software as part of their coursework. (22:00)
  • Michael Dexter asked about Karen's teaching at Columbia Law
    • School. (27:25)
  • A written questioner asked about copyleft-next's
    • sunset clause. (29:22) Karen mentioned “Copyleft, All wrongs
    reversed” as it appeared on n June 1976 on Tiny BASIC, which
    inspired the term copyleft to mean what it does today. (30:45)
  • Karen spoke about the issues of copyright and trademark regarding
    • Disney, that is supplemented by
    this blog post. (32:52)
  • Carol Smith asked what Karen and Bradley thought were Conservancy's
    • and/or FOSS' biggest achievements in the last decade. (35:20) Karen
    mentioned Outreachy was a major
    success. (37:08)
  • A questioner asked about using the CASE Act to help in GPL
    • enforcement. Bradley discussed how it might ultimately introduce problems
    similar to arbitration
    clauses. (41:42) Since the podcast was recorded, the CASE Act has
    also passed the Senate, but does not seem to have been signed by the
    President. (47:30)
  • Bradley noted that Mako Hill has pointed out that FOSS
    • has not been involved in lobbying enough. (48:10)
  • A questioner in the audience asked about the Mozilla Corporation
    • structure would allow Mozilla to do lobbying for FOSS. (50:57) Karen
    explained the Mozilla corporate legal structure (51:35).
  • A questioner in the audience asked about Mako
    • Hill's keynote and how individuals can help further the cause of software
    freedom. (54:53)
  • Michael Dexter asked if software patents are still as much of a threat as
    • they once were. (1:01:30)
  • Carol asked about the supreme court hearing the Oracle v. Google case
    • (1:09:04)

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