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Episode 0x1D: Stefano Zacchiroli, Current DPL

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Karen interviews Stefano Zacchiroli, who is the current Debian

Project Leader. Karen and Bradley discuss their thoughts on that
interview.

Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:36)
  • Karen interviewed Stefano
    • Zacchiroli, who is the current Debian Project Leader.
    (02:59)
    Segment 1 (03:58)
    • Stefano was inspired by a professor at his university to get
      • involved with Free Software, because you can study the
      sources. (04:50)
    • DPL reelection is in April each year. (08:40)
    • Stefano discovered that some Debian derivatives weren't
      • distributing source packages. He's helped them get into compliance,
      although Stefano hesitates to call it enforcement. (12:40)
    • Stefano mentioned that many Debian contributors begin contributing
      • upstream to Debian after contributing to derivatives of Debian
      first. (15:20)
    • Stefano thinks the adoption of Free Software on the desktop is
      • shrinking, and many users are using proprietary software
      “cloud” services. (19:00)
    • Stefano thinks that GPL is not enough to defend our software
      • freedom, and that AGPL can do it but it came a bit late. (20:20)
    • Stefano is concerned about companies like Google that can
      • reimplement an entire software system merely to avoid
      copyleft. (20:40)
      Segment 2 (21:04)
      • Bradley mentioned that moving a package to non-free is a powerful
        • tool that Debian has to deal with licensing situations (21:40)
      • Bradley noted that the Debian ftpmasters make decisions about
        • licensing, but it has not been historically well documented. It seems that fact is now
        well documented. (27:30)

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