Bradley and Karen announced that the Software Freedom Law
Show is over. Karen and Bradley announced a new show,
called Free as in Freedom, that will not be affiliated
with any specific organization (although Bradley and Karen keep all their
various affiliations themselves. :).
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:28)
Bradley mentioned OsamaK is nothappy at Bradley and Karen for not having a new oggcast for a
month. (00:45)
Bradley no long works at the Software Freedom Law Center. He nowworks full time at the Software
Freedom Conservancy. (02:00)
Bradley thinks everything related to FLOSS should be called“Software Freedom”. (03:10)
Karen and Bradley mention that many people in the software freedomworld are involved in multiple organizations. (04:00)
Karen is an officerand lawyer to Software Freedom Conservancy. (04:30)
Conservancy provides non-profitinfrastructure and services. (05:10)
Conservancy helps software freedom projects focus on development, andaggregate projects into one place. (06:20)
Conservancy will be expanding its service plan now that Bradley isfull time. (06:46)
Conservancy will try do copyright assignment in a community-focusedway, only if the developers want it. Conservancy will also do more GPL
enforcement than previously. (07:20)
Bradley mentioned that Matthew Garrett has been doing someGPL enforcement, and Bradley thanked
him for it publicly. (07:50)
Karen thinks we'll see more enforcement over time, by morepeople. (08:14)
Bradley wants to help Conservancy's member projects domore fundraising for initiatives to fund software development
activity. (08:40)
Bradley mentioned that MattMackall is doing Mercurial development funded through
Conservancy. (09:20)
Asof earlier this year, Bradley is a volunteer director of the FSF, and
now has additional volunteer work that he needs to do, while Conservancy
(his former volunteer work) becomes his day job. (11:09)
Bradley mentions that once you start doing something in the softwarefreedom world, it's hard to stop once people start to rely on your
work. (12:30)
Conservancy handles a lot of “boring” but essential stufffor developers to continue in their project. (14:20)
Bradley mentioned that his early volunteer work at FSF was also doingthe boring stuff, and indeed a lot of his work has been willing to do the
boring stuff (15:30)
Karen mentions that no one fights over the work that just needs toget done. (16:30)
Bradley discussed the fact that for-profit corporate control ofprojects is dangerous, and one of the things Conservancy and similar
non-profits offers is an opportunity to have a non-profit with the public
interest at heart in the center of their community. (17:39)
Bradley mentioned the LibreOffice by the DocumentFoundation (18:03)
Karen points out that for-profit and non-profit go hand-in-hand. But,Bradley argues that steward of a FLOSS project should always be an
NGO. Karen agrees. (19:00-19:30)
Bradley doesn't really believe that there are projects that would“never happen” without a for-profit company starting it.
Karen disagrees.
The Software Freedom Law Show is overThis is the last episode of the Software Freedom
Law Show. (21:10)
Karen will make sure that the SFLC RSS feeds remain valid. Bradleypoints out that there are new RSS feeds for both the mp3 version and the ogg version of the new show,
Free as in Freedom (21:33,
22:41)
The new show is basically just the Karen and Bradley show, now named Free as in Freedom, hosted on faif.us. (23:43)Bradley mentioned that everywhere he's ever worked, he always had rooton most of the boxes. He doesn't know what it's like to work somewhere
and not have root. (27:50)
Karen got in trouble at her first law firm job for installing softwareon computers. (28:21)
Dan Scott sent a gift to Bradleyand Karen Soap with 20-Ds
in them.
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