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:

September 14, 2012Episode 0x31: GNU Mediagoblin
Karen and Bradley interview Christopher Allan Webber of the GNU Mediagoblin project.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:31)

Karen and Bradley introduce the interview.
Segment 0 (00:56)
Karen and Bradley interview their guest, Christopher Allan Webber of the GNU Mediagoblin project.

GNU Mediagoblin is licensed under the Affero GPL, but does
not require copyright assignment and the developers have no plans to
seek a proprietary licensing business.

Bradley mentioned this
dent by Stephen Fry on identi.ca, but that was in fact not his last dent as Bradley said.
(21:50)

GNU Mediagoblin is working on a fundraising video and will start a
new fundraising campaign soon.

Chris discussed
this
comic about trolls that was part of the slides of
Chris' OSCON talk. (27:07)

Chris mentioned the Open
Source Almost Everything essay from GitHub's founder. (28:30)

Karen mentioned Mike Linksvayer's talk in
FaiF 0x2E. (39:00)

Segment 1 (43:36)

GNU Mediagoblin will be launching a fundraising campaign soon.
Check back here for details later!
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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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46min
August 28, 2012Episode 0x30: GNOME Press Comments
Karen and Bradley discuss recent coverage of GNOME by the technology
press, and more generally issues and concerns with the technology
press.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:44)
Bradley couldn't find support for his claim about in the
can, and Karen may be right.(01:15)

Bradley mentioned that the GNOME Foundation negative press recently
is akin to what Harry
Reid did by stating rumors regarding Romney's taxes. (05:03)

Karen mentioned the Debunking
Handbook that Germán
Póo-Caamaño mentioned to her. (06:30)

Bradley mentioned the quote I do not think
[that word] means what you think it means from The
Princess Bride. (13:30)

Karen mentioned the GNOME 15 year Anniversary
Site. (17:22)

Bradley mentioned Dave
Neary's GNOME census, and quoted numbers from the census. (21:30)

Bradley discussed Eazel, a company co-founded
by Andy
Hertzfeld. (23:03)

Karen mentioned GNOME's Outreach Program for Women,
in which Conservancy participates. (25:34)

Karen mentioned an
article that came out on the same day as this audcast. (30:30)

Bradley mentioned that some research by evolutionary biologists
suggests language
may have developed for gossip (38:48). Bradley couldn't find
evidence easily online for the 80% is gossip claim on the audcase, but
did find an article talking about 65%
of human communication is gossip.

Bradley mentioned the television series, The
Human Animal. (39:17)

Bradley mentioned a thread
he recently posted in on the BusyBox mailing list. (50:32)

Bradley mentioned that there are many
cognitive psychological biases. (51:11)

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Theme
music written and performed
by Mike Tarantino
with Charlie Paxson on drums.
The content
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57min
August 15, 20120x2F: OSCON and GUADEC 2012
Karen and Bradley discuss OSCON and GUADEC.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:36)
Bradley represents FSF on the GNOME Advisory
Board. (02:20)

Bradley points out it's very dangerous when you can buy voting
rights of a 501(c)(3) by paying money, such as the structure of OSI.
Karen notes that contribution-based membership works very well for
GNOME. (03:50)

Bradley is concerned about the future of OSI's license list now
that votes in OSI are for sale. (04:30)

Bradley received an O'Reilly
Open Source Award at OSCON 2012. Bradley blogged an acceptance
speech for the award. (08:50)

The
Python award and the Perl White Camel
award is also given at OSCON. (12:35)

Karen mentioned FLOSS
Foundations, and asked if there was a meeting at OSCON. Bradley
mentioned it had been primarily rolled into Jono Bacon's CLS
conference. (15:10)

Segment 1 (17:56)
Bradley wrote in a post about the GUADEC 2010 conference to note
how welcoming the community was. Karen described GUADEC 2012 as very
similar in nature. (21:25)

Karen mentioned her husband Mike had a similar reaction to GUADEC
2012 that Bradley had to GUADEC 2010. (23:50)

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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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40min
August 15, 20120x2F: OSCON and GUADEC 2012
Karen and Bradley discuss OSCON and GUADEC.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:36)
Bradley represents FSF on the GNOME Advisory
Board. (02:20)

Bradley points out it's very dangerous when you can buy voting
rights of a 501(c)(3) by paying money, such as the structure of OSI.
Karen notes that contribution-based membership works very well for
GNOME. (03:50)

Bradley is concerned about the future of OSI's license list now
that votes in OSI are for sale. (04:30)

Bradley received an O'Reilly
Open Source Award at OSCON 2012. Bradley blogged an acceptance
speech for the award. (08:50)

The
Python award and the Perl White Camel
award is also given at OSCON. (12:35)

Karen mentioned FLOSS
Foundations, and asked if there was a meeting at OSCON. Bradley
mentioned it had been primarily rolled into Jono Bacon's CLS
conference. (15:10)

Segment 1 (17:56)
Bradley wrote in a post about the GUADEC 2010 conference to note
how welcoming the community was. Karen described GUADEC 2012 as very
similar in nature. (21:25)

Karen mentioned her husband Mike had a similar reaction to GUADEC
2012 that Bradley had to GUADEC 2010. (23:50)

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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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40min
July 17, 2012Episode 0x2E: FOSDEM 2012: Linksvayer on Public Policy & CC 4.0
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Mike
Linksvayer's FOSDEM 2012 talk, Creative
Commons 4.0 licenses and other opportunities for FLOSS/free culture
legal/policy intersections from the FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:38)

Bradley and Karen suggest that you use the slides below when
listening to Mike's talk.
Segment 1 (05:51)

Mike Linksvayer's slides for this talk are available in PDF
format and in ODP
format.
Segment 2 (33:43)
Segment 3 (34:25)

A special licensing message from Mike Linksvayer.
Segment 4 (35:09)
Karen mentioned Bradley's favorite movie, It's
a Wonderful Life.

Bradley mentioned Asheesh Laroia,
who appears to never blogged about his CC/credit-card-thief freenode
confusion story. (48:00)

Bradley mentioned Fontana's Copyleft.next project
. (50:00)

Bradley mentioned the ST:TNG
episode, Unification,
Part II, although he kept calling it Reunification during the episode. Please don't write in to complain; he realized the error after recording. (54:39)

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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
1h
July 05, 20120x2D: FSF's Restricted Boot Paper
Karen and Bradley discuss FSF's
announcement of FSF's
white paper on Restricted Boot, which critiques Red Hat's approach to
restricted boot for its Fedora distribution and Canonical,
Ltd.'s approach to restricted boot for its Ubuntu distribution.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:38)
Karen mentioned it's useful that FSF avoids preloaded names.
Bradley used FSF's
criticism of the term “intellectual property” as an
example of why it's important to avoid biased terminology. (02:22)

Karen suggested that listeners may want to read FSF's
white paper on Restricted Boot. (04:00)

Bradley suggested also reading
the Fedora statement
and both Canonical,
Ltd. statements.
(04:37)

Bradley and Karen mentioned the
many
blog
posts
Matthew
Garrett
made
about
UEFI
are
worth
reading
in
sequence
to
learn
more
about
this
issue. (13:21)
Bradley mentioned that FSF
collaborated with the EFF on the broadcast flag
issue. (25:40)
Alan
Cox made some critical posts toward Matthew and the Red Hat policy.
(20:50)

Bradley mentioned this Ancient
Aliens from the History channel. (39:15)

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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
43min
June 19, 20120x2C: FOSDEM 2012: Laurent's Open Licences before European Courts
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Philippe
Laurent's FOSDEM 2012 talk, Open
Licences before European Courts from the FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:36)

Karen and Bradley mention there is one talk remaining after this one
from the FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
Segment 1 (03:04)

Philippe's slides
are available from faif.us. Note: the slides are licensed
differently than the show: they are CC-By-SA-3.0-Unported (rather than -USA).
Segment 2 (32:22)
Bradley mentioned FSF France's
involvement with the AFPA case. (37:30)

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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
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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
45min
June 05, 20120x2B: Deb Nicholson of OIN
Karen and Bradley interview Deb Nicholson of Open Invention Network,
GNU MediaGoblin and Open Hatch.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:36)
Karen announced
her pregnancy. (01:50)

Bradley will be at OSCON, Karen might be, and Karen will be at
GUADEC. Bradley will be at LinuxCon North America and LinuxCon
Europe. (03:00)

Segment 1 (04:40)
Deb Nicholson was previously on the show as Episode 0x25: FOSDEM 2012
Patents Panel. (06:00)

Deb mentioned Linux
System Definition, which is the OIN-published list of things that
OIN members license their patents to each other on. (07:12)

Deb and Bradley are debating Bradley's comment regarding Deb's
points on the panel on 0x25. If you go back to listen to 0x25, the
context for the comment they're debating starts around 38:00 in
0x25. (19:20)

It's possible etymology
of the verb “to harp” may indeed come from the musical
instrument, not harpy. (31:00)

Karen mentioned The Ada
Initiative. (32:52)

Segment 2 (38:54)

Bradley and Karen talk about plans for upcoming shows.
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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
under the Creative
Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).
...more
49min
May 29, 2012 0x2A: Conservancy's Compliance Project

Karen and Bradley discuss Software Freedom Conservancy's
announcement
regarding its coordinated license compliance program.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:36)

Karen and Bradley discuss Software Freedom Conservancy's
announcement
regarding its coordinated license compliance program.
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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
33min
May 22, 2012 0x29: Richard Fontana at Linux Collaboration Summit 2012

Karen and Bradley play and discuss Richard
Fontana's Linux Collaboration Summit 2012 talk, The Decline of
the GPL, and What To Do About It.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:36)

Karen mentioned a legal summit
where Richard and Karen spoke; the same event where the organizers said
having Bradley speak would be the same as having the caterers
speak.
Segment 1 (04:46)

Fontana's slides for
this talk are available on Fontana's website.

Note that this talk is a longer version of
Ricahrd
Fontana's FOSDEM 2012 talk, The
(possible) decline of the GPL, and what to do about it from
the FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
Segment 2 (57:24)

Bradley and Karen discuss Fontana'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
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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
1h 20min

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