Free as in Freedom

By Free as in Freedom

A bi-weekly discussion of legal, policy, and other issues in the open source and software freedom community (including occasional interviews) from Brooklyn, New York, USA. Presented by Karen Sandler ... more

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Free as in Freedom episodes:

May 27, 20140x45: I'm Board
Bradley and Karen discuss the details, what to worry about, and what
the usual duties are when serving on a Board of Directors for a USA
non-profit. The discussion is primarily about 501(c)(3) organizations,
but at the end they spend some time discussing 501(c)(6) organizations as
well.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:00:44)
An
image of Alfie chewing on the antler (01:22)

Karen
is running for the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors. (05:15)

Bradley once criticized the CNRI OPEN SOURCE
LICENSE AGREEMENT (used for parts of Python), because it is governed by
the laws of a place that doesn't exist. (06:48)

Bradley mentioned a Planet
Money episode that talked about it's “too easy” to incorporate
in Delaware (23:50)

Segment 1 (00:32:25)
Bradley and Karen discuss various additional things about being on a
Board of Directors, including why and how you might be able to serve on
one.

Bradley and Karen discuss the requirements for
getting on a 501(c)(6) Board like Linux Foundation (55:30)

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Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch
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Theme
music written and performed
by Mike Tarantino
with Charlie Paxson on drums.
The content
of this
audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed
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Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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1h 3min
May 13, 20140x44: Oracle v. Google Federal Appeals Court Decision
Bradley and Karen explain why they've been gone for so long, and then
discuss the recent
Oracle v. Google Federal Appeals Court Decision.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:00:31)
Karen is now Executive Director of Conservancy and Bradley is
President and Distinguished Technologist. (03:01)

Bradley will be working extensively on the NPO Accounting
Project. (03:40)

Segment 1 (00:09:37)
Karen says the
Oracle v. Google Federal Appeals Court Decision is not an engaging
read, but the lower
court decision was. (09:50)

Karen said: You're out of your
element, Donny! (12:38)

Karen mentioned a tweet from the EFF (15:23)

Bradley mentioned his older blog post about the
previous decision (16:48)

Karen incorrectly said we never recorded a show on the previous
decision, but we did indeed discuss the previous Oracle v. Google decision
in , which Bradley and Karen discussed in Episode 0x35 (18:53)

Karen and Bradley explained what an affirmative
defense, arguments
in the alternative, and merger
doctrine. (21:03)

Bradley mentioned the Apache Software
Foundation is now publicly more against copyleft software than proprietary
software, and that such position is unreasonable, unlike the OpenBSD
position that copyleft and proprietary software are equally bad: a
position Bradley disagrees with but agrees is consistent, reasonable moral
stance. (38:40)

Bradley mentioned his discussions with Mark J. Wielaard of the
Classpath project (52:20)
Bradley and Karen ask people to doante to Conservancy.
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Theme
music written and performed
by Mike Tarantino
with Charlie Paxson on drums.
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of this
audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed
under the Creative
Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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56min
October 17, 20130x43: State of the GNUnion
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss John
Sullivan's talk from FOSDEM 2013,
entitled State
of the GNUnion.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:00:33)

Karen and Bradley introduce the talk.
Segment 1 (00:01:58)

The slides
for John's talk are available, and the source
of those slides is available too.
Segment 1 (00:54:31)
Bradley mentioned RMS'
essay, Who Does That Server Really Serve?
(01:08:55)
Segment 2 (01:14:53)

Private
Internet Access became a new GNOME Advisory Board Member.
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Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch
of danlynch.org.
Theme
music written and performed
by Mike Tarantino
with Charlie Paxson on drums.
The content
of this
audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed
under the Creative
Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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1h 20min
September 04, 20130x42: libVLC LGPL Relicensing
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Jean-Baptiste
Kempf's talk from FOSDEM 2013,
entitled Relicensing libVLC and VLC modules from GPL to LGPL.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:00:28)
The plural of hiatus appears to be hiatukset, but hiatuses is the
proper English. (01:50)

Bradley adopted two dogs from a shelter. They like kongs (02:30)

Bradley's wife has a blog with pictures of their
dogs. (04:30)
Segment 1 (00:05:52)

Jean-Baptiste Kempf slides
are available for this talk.
Segment 2 (01:03:20)
Bradley had written a a blog post
about the VLC relicensing. (01:03:48)

Bradley mentioned a an
article in The Onion about pugs known health problems
(01:15:47)

Karen mentioned The Last
GUADEC blog post.

Segment 3 (01:21:00)

Bradley and Karen discussed the
release of the ExFAT Samsung source code.
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Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch
of danlynch.org.
Theme
music written and performed
by Mike Tarantino
with Charlie Paxson on drums.
The content
of this
audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed
under the Creative
Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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1h 26min
August 14, 2013Episode 0x41: Interview with Jim Zemlin at OSCON 2013
Bradley and Karen interview Jim Zemlin,
Executive Director of the The
Linux Foundation.

Show Notes:

Bradley and Karen interview Jim Zemlin,
Executive Director of the The
Linux Foundation.
Segment 0 (00:00:33)

Bradley and Karen introduce the interview.
Segment 1 (00:03:03)

Bradley and Karen interview Jim Zemlin.
Segment 2 (00:25:23)
Karen and Bradley wrap up the discussion about 501(c)(3) and
501(c)(6).
Bradley referenced this post which ocurred in this thread about Linus saying Greg KH is a door-mat. (26:36, 34:55)

The OSCON session that Bradley chaired was Non-Profits
Organizations for FLOSS Projects: There Is No Place Like Home,
and the slides
are available. (33:21)

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You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and
by following Conservancy on
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Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch
of danlynch.org.
Theme
music written and performed
by Mike Tarantino
with Charlie Paxson on drums.
The content
of this
audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed
under the Creative
Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).
...more
38min
August 02, 2013Episode 0x40: Alison Chaiken on Free Software in Cars
Note: initially, from 2013-08-01 18:30 through 2013-08-02 08:40 (US/Eastern), the audio file links in the feed did not work. That has been corrected.
Bradley and Karen interview Alison Chaiken about Free Software in
cars.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:00:38)

Bradley and Karen introduce the interview.
Segment 1 (00:01:43)
Bradley and Karen interview Alison Chaiken about Free
Software in the automotive industry.

Alison mentioned the Genivi
Alliance, which is an industry trade association with some interest in
“Open Source”.

Alison presented a session at LibrePlanet
about the Right to Repair act in Massachusetts. (00:14:30)

Alison encouraged listens to get involved with Right to Repair and the Massachusetts Right to Repair.

Segment 2 (00:36:09)
Karen moderated a panel
at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit
2013 on Automotive issues (37:12)

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You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and
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Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch
of danlynch.org.
Theme
music written and performed
by Mike Tarantino
with Charlie Paxson on drums.
The content
of this
audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed
under the Creative
Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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52min
July 17, 2013Episode 0x3F: FOSDEM 2013 - AGPLv3 Panel Discussion
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss The
panel discussion on the GNU Affero General Public License from
FOSDEM 2013.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:00:38)
Bradley asked for donations again to Conservancy's NPO accounting
software campaign and Karen asked for donations to GNOME's Privacy Campaign.

Segment 1 (00:04:50)

This is the Panel
Discussion: GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 from
FOSDEM 2013. The speakers, in the order their voices are heard, are Tom
Marble (introduction), Richard
Fontana (moderator), Bradley
M. Kuhn, Eileen
Evans, and Christopher
Allan Webber.
Segment 2 (01:06:47)
Bradley mentioned the phrase Give me convenience or give me
death, which is from a title
of the Dead Kennedys album he suggested applied to the selection of
proprietary software (01:10:10)

Bradley mentioned RMS'
recent update to his Who does that server really serve?
essay. (01:11:30)

Bradley mentioned his
blog post on doing VoIP encryption with Free Software. (01:14:04)

Bradley mentioned his talk entitled The
Affero GPLv3: Why It Exists & Who It's For? at the Southern California Linux Expo
11x. The slides are
available and the sources for
the slides are available. (01:17:30)

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You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and
by following Conservancy on
identi.ca and and Twitter.
Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch
of danlynch.org.
Theme
music written and performed
by Mike Tarantino
with Charlie Paxson on drums.
The content
of this
audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed
under the Creative
Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).
...more
1h 29min
June 13, 20130x3E: Mozilla - Licensing in the Trenches
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Gervase
Markham's talk from FOSDEM
2013, entitled Mozilla: Licensing In The Trenches.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:00:34)
Bradley encouraged listeners to Conservancy's campaign for
non-profit accounting software. (02:10)

Bradley mentioned his
2009 blog post encouraging people to donate to Free Software charities (02:50)

Karen asked people to donate
to the GNOME Foundation privacy campaign (04:11)

Segment 1 (00:04:57)

Gerv's slides
from his FOSDEM 2013 talk can be downloaded from FOSDEM's website.
Segment 2 (00:51:48)

Bradley and Karen discuss Gerv's talk.
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You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and
by following Conservancy on
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Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch
of danlynch.org.
Theme
music written and performed
by Mike Tarantino
with Charlie Paxson on drums.
The content
of this
audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed
under the Creative
Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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1h 12min
May 28, 20130x3D: Conference Behavior Redux
Karen and Bradley discuss the sexist
comment issue that occurred a few months ago at PyCon USA 2013.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:00:34)
Bradley and Karen previously discussed conference behavior back in
Episode 0x04.

Bradley had blogged a few years ago about the
issues of sexism through the computer industry, including this study showing
the glass ceiling in CS academics. (05:17)

Bradley mentioned that he'd blogged in the past that proprietary
software companies also have issues of sexism at conferences (05:58)

Bradley mentioned the How to Perform Like
a Porn Star CouchDB talk at a Ruby Conference (06:13)

There is indeed a Project named
PyCorn. (09:38)

Bradley mentioned the Planet Money
story about Online Pharmacies but he couldn't find the original audio
of the longer piece that ends with the phrase Stay Shady, Internet
(21:30)

Bradley mentioned a quote about the human mind being the most
dangerous thing because everything is in it, which is actually from Heart of
Darkness by Joesph Conrad. (23:40)

Bradley mentioned that a keynoter at
LinuxCon Europe made sexist comments back in 2011. (30:02)

Bradley and Karen encouraged listeners to promote the GNOME Foundation Outreach Program for
Women (31:20)

Bradley mentioned Shuttleworth's
comment at LinuxCon North America in 2009 (32:02).

Send feedback and comments on the cast
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You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and
by following Conservancy on
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Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch
of danlynch.org.
Theme
music written and performed
by Mike Tarantino
with Charlie Paxson on drums.
The content
of this
audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed
under the Creative
Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).
...more
40min
May 07, 20130x3C: FOSDEM 2013: How to Share a Trademark
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Pamela
Chestek's talk from FOSDEM
2013, entitled How
to Share a Trademark.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:00:33)

Karen and Bradley introduce the talk.
Segment 0 (00:02:05)

Pam gave us slides,
but it's all in one big SVG.
Segment 2 (00:55:10)
The talk that Bradley mentioned was this talk that Karen gave at Linux
Foundation Collaboration Summit 2012; he was unable to find a
recording. (57:04)

Note that most of the time the word source was used in the talk
and Karen's comments, it means origin, not source
code. (01:05:55)

Bradley mentioned this Planet
Money story about the 5¢ coke. (01:21:37)

Send feedback and comments on the cast
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You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and
by following Conservancy on
identi.ca and and Twitter.
Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch
of danlynch.org.
Theme
music written and performed
by Mike Tarantino
with Charlie Paxson on drums.
The content
of this
audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed
under the Creative
Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).
...more
1h 24min

FAQs about Free as in Freedom:

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The podcast currently has 111 episodes available.