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Episode 0x17: Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful

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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)
      • Karen has done some pro bono work for
        • PubPat, and also Question
        Copyright (01:01:30)

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