Free as in Freedom
110 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsA 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 and Bradley M. Kuhn.
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FOSSY 2023
July 05, 2023 12:02 - 5 minutes - 5.48 MBCome to FOSSY 2023! Show Notes: FOSSY 2023 will happen next week in Portland, OR, USA. Send feedback and comments on the cast to <[email protected]>. 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 audc...
0x6C: Even More DMCA Exemption Requests!
March 09, 2021 19:42 - 52 minutes - 38.8 MBKaren and Bradley discuss two other DMCA exemptions filed by Software Freedom Conservancy during the 2020/2021 Triennial Rulemaking Process at the copyright office: one for wireless router firmwares and one for privacy research. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:39) Supporters of Conservancy can join this mailing list to hear and see live recordings of every show! Segment 1 (06:30) Conservancy filed a DMCA exemption request for wireless routers, and updated it with their ...
0x6B: GPL Enforcement Investigation DMCA Exemption Request
January 14, 2021 19:00 - 51 minutes - 33.6 MBSoftware Freedom Conservancy filed multiple exemptions in the USA Copyright Office Triennial Rulemaking Process under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). In this episode, Karen and Bradley explore the details of Conservancy's filing to request permission to circumvent technological restriction measures in order to investigate infringement of other people's copyright, which is a necessary part of investigations of alleged violations of the GPL and other copylef...
0x6A: Live Show from SeaGL 2019
March 31, 2020 16:49 - 1 hour - 51.8 MBThe first live podcast of Free as in Freedom, hosted at SeaGL 2019 in November 2019. Hear questions from the studio audience and answers from Bradley and Karen. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:38) Producer Dan speaks on mic to introduce that this is a live show. Segment 1 (01:17) This is a live show from SeaGL 2019, a community-organized FaiP (02:15) Carol Smith from Microsoft asked about being a charity in the USA under recent tax changes regarding tax deduction and, and as...
0x69: Microsoft's E-Book Platform and Other DRM Disasters
November 12, 2019 17:15 - 46 minutes - 31.5 MBKaren and Bradley discuss the end to Microsoft's e-book platform and generally the dangers and disasters that Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) cause for software users and developers. Show Notes: Karen and Bradley discuss the end to Microsoft's e-book platform and generally the dangers and disasters that Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) cause for software users and developers. Segment 0 (00:35) Bradley mentioned that Microsoft ended their e-book platform. He sa...
0x68: Molly De Blanc at CopyleftConf 2019
May 31, 2019 12:26 - 58 minutes - 37 MBBradley and Karen enjoy and discuss Molly De Blanc's keynote at the first annual CopyleftConf, entitled The Margins of Software Freedom, followed by an exclusive interview with Molly! Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:37) Bradley mentioned (without the title) the film, When a Stranger Calls, which is indeed a real movie, not a TV movie, and was from the late 1970s — although Bradley saw it on TV sometime in the 1980s. (02:15) Segment 1 (04:11) A recording of Molly De Blanc's key...
0x67: Analysis of Two Backports of GPLv3 Termination Provisions to GPLv2
May 11, 2019 20:49 - 41 minutes - 26.8 MBBradley and Karen discuss two additional permissions that can be used to “backport” the GPLv3 Termination provisions to GPLv2 — the Kernel Enforcement Statement Additional Permission, and the Red Hat Cooperation Commitment. A blog post on Conservancy's site summarizes the discussion on this show. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:35) Bradley mentioned irregardless is not actually a word, but it does appear to be slang, which dates back to 1795! (03:23) The additional permi...
0x66: The End of Hellwig vs. VMware
April 22, 2019 22:41 - 38 minutes - 24.4 MBBradley and Karen discuss the details of the completion of the lawsuit (which Conservancy supported) between Christoph Hellwig and VMware in Germany. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:37) Bradley mentioned the episode of Red Dwarf, White Hole, where the characters are speaking too slowly or two quickly due to time differentials. (01:30) Bradley explained that the Hellwig vs. VMware suit in Germany has concluded. (03:30) German is a civil law legal system. (05:15) Chris...
0x65: Linux Foundation's Community Bridge
April 02, 2019 13:21 - 47 minutes - 30.3 MBBradley and Karen discuss and critique the new initiative by the Linux Foundation called CommunityBridge. The podcast includes various analysis that expands upon their blog post about Linux Foundation's CommunityBridge. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) Conservancy helped Free Software Foundation and GNOME Foundation begin fiscal sponsorship work. (07:50) Conservancy has always been very coordinated with Software in the Public Interest, which is a FOSS fiscal sponsor tha...
0x64: Our Producer Dan Lynch Interviewed at Copyleft Conf 2019
March 27, 2019 19:19 - 36 minutes - 32.6 MBBradley and Karen interview their own producer, Dan Lynch, on site at Copyleft Conf 2019. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:46) Karen now teaches teaches a course at Columbia University. (03:40) In addition to being the producer of Free as in Freedom, Dan Lynch was the host of Rat Hole Radio, the co-host of Linux Outlaws, and currently co-hosts Hollywood Outlaws. (04:30) Segment 1 (5:19) Dan helps co-organize Oggcamp which is having its tenth-anniversary event on Sat...
0x63: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? (Part IV)
March 20, 2019 22:39 - 1 hour - 53.6 MBIn their final installment regarding their joint keynote at FOSDEM 2019, entitled: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today?: Confessions of Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary Software, you listeners can hear the final product — a recording of the actual FOSDEM keynote. Afterwards, Karen and Bradley compare notes on what went wrong and what went right (but mostly what went wrong) during the talk. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:35) Bradley and Ka...
0x62: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? (Part III)
March 12, 2019 19:56 - 28 minutes - 24.7 MBBradley and Karen have the last pre-talk installment of discussing the preparation for their joint keynote at FOSDEM 2019, entitled: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today?: Confessions of Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary Software. This episode is the third of three episodes where Bradley and Karen record their preparation conversations for this keynote address. In this particular episode, they discuss the issue of letting others use propri...
0x61: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? (Part II)
February 19, 2019 23:08 - 35 minutes - 31 MBBradley and Karen continue the process of preparing their joint keynote at FOSDEM 2019, entitled: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today?: Confessions of Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary Software. This episode is the second of three episodes where Bradley and Karen record their preparation conversations for this keynote address. In this particular episode, they discuss the golden age in history when they used very little proprietary software, and t...
0x60: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? (Part I)
January 13, 2019 23:50 - 36 minutes - 22.4 MBBradley and Karen pull back the curtain and begin the process of preparing their joint keynote at FOSDEM 2019, entitled: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today?: Confessions of Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary Software. This episode is the first of multiple episodes where Bradley and Karen record their preparation conversations for this keynote address. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) Bradley and Karen discuss the plan to do prep for their FOSDEM ...
0x5F: Was 2018 the Year of Non-FOSS Licensing?
December 31, 2018 13:34 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBBradley and Karen return, as promised, in 2018 (just barely)! They discuss the many non-FOSS and otherwise software-freedom-unfriendly licenses that have been promulgated in 2018. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) Bradley and Karen discuss ideas for what to do with the oggcast going forward. Segment 2 (07:49) Bradley mentioned the field of endeavor restriction in Open Source Defintion. (09:20) Bradley mentioned how badly Amazon treats its workers who pack boxes, which was wid...
0x5E: Conservancy's ContractPatch Initiative
November 01, 2016 19:30 - 50 minutes - 46.9 MBBradley and Karen discuss Conservancy's ContractPatch Initiative that will help Free Software developers negotiate their agreements with employers. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:38) Software Freedom Conservancy has two blog posts and a mailing list to discuss the Contract Patch initiative (02:40). Bradley searched for the NPR story he mentioned but just couldn't find it, but he did fine a similar one covering terms of service agreements (08:30) Karen mentioned the the Ou...
0x5D: Conference Report, 1st Half of 2016
September 21, 2016 17:49 - 53 minutes - 49.7 MBBradley and Karen discuss Conservancy's conference trips and presentations during the first half of 2016. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:38) Bradley attended and spoke at FOSDEM 2016 and LinuxConf Australia 2016 (03:10) Bradley and Karen co-coordinated the FOSDEM 2016 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom (04:43) Tom Marble did an interview-format discussion with Richard M. Stallman at FOSDEM 2016 (04:55) Bradley gave two talks at FOSDEM 2016, Copyleft For the Next Decade: A Co...
0x5C: Basic FLOSS Concepts: Licensing 101
September 02, 2016 14:40 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBBradley and Karen give a basic introduction of copyright licensing of Open Source and Free Software. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:35) Bradley mentioned the phrase “fixed in a tangible medium” which appears in the USA copyright law. (03:10) Bradley mentioned the Sherman Antitrust act. (04:05) Bradley mentioned the card game Pit (04:15) Bradley jokingly quoted Mit Romney's famous gaffe, “Corporations are people, my friend.” (04:44) Bradley read Title 17, the USA Copyright act many...
0x59: Audio Killed the Video Star
August 18, 2016 17:00 - 26 minutes - 25.1 MBBradley and Karen discuss the plan for restarting Free as in Freedom and plans for episodes to come. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) Bradley said in the before time — in the long long ago, which is a reference to the South Park parody of the ST:TOS episode, Miri (01:30) Bradley mentioned when Karen Sandler left the GNOME Foundation and took over Bradley's old job as Executive Director of Conservancy. (02:20) Karen mentioned that Bradley used to be Executive Director of the Free...
0x58: Debian Copyright Aggregation
July 14, 2016 17:10 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBBradley and Karen discuss Conservancy's Debian Copyright Aggregation project. (Note: While it was released just after DebConf16, this episode was recorded well before DebConf16; the discussions about DebConf refer to DebConf15.) Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:38) Note: While it was released just after DebConf16, this episode was recorded well before DebConf16; the discussions about DebConf refer to DebConf15. Bradley mentioned his talk at DebConf. This was recorded before...
0x57: Support Conservancy Now!
November 24, 2015 16:05 - 26 minutes - 36.3 MBFree as in Freedom host Christopher Allan Webber interviews Karen Sandler and Bradley Kuhn about their work on copyleft and at Software Freedom Conservancy. You can become a Supporter of this work! Show Notes: Bradley mentioned Cygnus Solutions, ultimately acquired by Red Hat, which was an early for-profit supporter of copylefted projects. Bradley and Karen discussed the VMware lawsuit. Chris Webber wrote this blog post in response to a Shane Curcuru, who is V...
0x56: … & We're Back!
June 04, 2015 15:25 - 33 minutes - 31.5 MBBradley and Karen discuss the VMware lawsuit that Software Freedom Conservancy is funding. Show Notes: Bradley and Karen discuss the lawsuit that Christoph Hellwig filed. (07:37) Karen mentioned her LibrePlanet keynote about the VMware lawsuit. (21:30) Bradley's talk at LinuxConf Australia 2015, Considering The Future of Copyleft, is available online. (22:04) Bradley mentioned the discussion on pump.io about NPR fundraisers. (24:23) Bradley mentioned a Debian 8 rele...
0x55: Nick Coghlan at LCA 2015
March 03, 2015 21:59 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBBradley and Karen interview Nick Coghlan, who works onn development and test infrastructure for Red Hat and is heavily involved with the Python community. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:35) Bradley and Karen interviewed Nick Coghlan who works for Red Hat and contributes to various Open Source and Free Software projects such as Python. Nick discussed his work on the infrastructure team at Red Hat, and his advocacy of Kallithea for use for the CPython project. Send fee...
0x54: Carol Smith at LCA 2015
January 29, 2015 18:50 - 39 minutes - 36.8 MBBradley and Karen interview Carol Smith, Programs and Open Source Community Manager of Google Summer of Code about the program and its policies and procedures. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:35) Bradley encourages those who attend FOSDEM 2015 to attend sign up to attend the Supporter Night Event on 30 January 2015 in Brussels, Belgium. Segment 1 (00:50:11) More Show notes for this one coming soon! Send feedback and comments on the cast to <[email protected]>. You can keep in touc...
0x53: Can Plagiarism Happen Under Copyleft?
December 30, 2014 15:55 - 1 hour - 71.3 MBBradley and Karen discuss what plagiarism is (or isn't) and how it interacts with copyleft licenses. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:37) Please donate to to send Dan to a conference. There's a progress bar on faif.us now. You can also donate to support Software Freedom Conservancy, where Bradley and Karen work, by becoming a supporter. Karen mentioned her blog post about the supporter program. (00:08:30) Bradley mentioned his blog post about the supporter program ...
0x52: Legal Issues from a Radical Community Angle
December 24, 2014 16:30 - 1 hour - 60.2 MBBradley and Karen play and discuss Stefano Zacchiroli's talk entitled Legal issues from a radical community angle that he gave 12:00 European/Central time on Sunday 2 February 2014 at FOSDEM 2014. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:35) Karen and Bradley introduce the talk. Segment 1 (00:02:38) Stefano Zacchiroli's talk entitled Legal issues from a radical community angle . You can watch the video instead of listening to our audio and/or follow along with Zach's slides...
0x51: Why Licenses Requiring Use of Trademarks are Non-Free
December 11, 2014 17:22 - 1 hour - 65 MBBradley and Karen play and discuss Pam Chestek's talk entitled Why Licenses Requiring Use of Trademarks are Non-Free that she gave on Sunday 2 February 2014 at FOSDEM 2014. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:34) You can donate now to send Producer Dan Lynch to a Free Software conference. Donations will be made to Conservancy and any proceeds raised beyond the amount needed to send Dan to a conference will support Conservancy generally. (05:30) Dan will of course need to follow...
0x5B: Interview with RMS on GNU's 30th Anniversary
November 24, 2014 14:33 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBKaren and Bradley interview Richard M. Stallman on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the GNU Project. Note: Episode 0x5B was released out of sequence, but they are in the order of release date on faif.us (rather than numerical order by episode number). Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:34) Note: Episode 0x5B was released out of sequence, but they are in the order of release date on faif.us (rather than numerical order by episode number). Bradley and Karen introduce the ...
0x50: Big Announcements & Evans' FOSDEM 2014 Talk
November 11, 2014 16:45 - 1 hour - 67.9 MBKaren and Bradley announce Conservancy's DMCA filing and Conservancy and FSF's joint launch of the copyleft.org project, and then discuss Eileen Evans' FOSDEM 2014 talk, entitled Licensing Models and Building an Open Source Community. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) Conservancy file a DMCA petition regarding so-called “Smart TVs”. (02:00) Bradley mentioned the magic marker that was as circumvention technique under DMCA. Here's an amusing joke press release about the issue....
0x5A: Gamergate's Free Software Connection
October 23, 2014 13:40 - 55 minutes - 51.6 MBNote: Episode 0x5A was released out of sequence, but they are in the order of release date on faif.us (rather than numerical order). Karen and Bradley discuss connections between the so-called “Gamergate” controversy and how it relates to the Free Software community and a few obvious legal issues. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:37) Karen asked if Bradley had heard of the Gamergate situation. (01:30) Matthew Garrett wrote a blog post regarding this topic entitled Actions have co...
0x4F: Linus Torvalds' Comments at DebConf 2014
October 09, 2014 18:50 - 38 minutes - 36.1 MBBradley and Karen discuss and criticize comments made by Linus Torvalds at his Q&A during DebConf 2014 in Portland, OR on 29 August 2014. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:37) Bradley and Karen discuss the Q&A with Linus Torvalds at DebConf 2014 in Portland, OR on 29 August 2014. (01:09) Segment 1 (04:30) Ryan Lortie asked about an offensive public statement Linus Torvalds made on 6 July 2012. (05:04) Bradley mentioned that Linus Torvalds argued Red Hat was kowtowing to Mic...
0x4E: IRS Refusal Redux
September 23, 2014 22:01 - 49 minutes - 45.9 MBBradley and Karen discuss the key differences between 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(6) organizations in the USA, and discuss recent refusals by the IRS to grant such statuses to Open Source and Free Software orgs. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:34) Bradley mentioned the 501(c)(3) vs. 501(c)(6) difference came up on FaiF 0x41. (03:35) Bradley mentioned that in 501(c)(3) status from the IRS is based on receiving some status governed by §170(b)(1)(A) of the tax code. (Most Free Software char...
0x4D: 2013 Interview: Poettering & Day on Sandboxed GNOME Applications
September 11, 2014 13:43 - 44 minutes - 41.5 MBKaren Sandler interviews Lennart Poettering and Alan Day during the GNOME Asia Summit 2013. Bradley and Karen comment on this interview. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:38) Bradley and Karen introduce Karen's interview with Lennart Poettering and Alan Day. Segment 1 (02:06) Karen interviews Lennart Poettering and Alan Day about Lennart's Sandboxed Applications for GNOME talk at GNOME Asia Summit 2013. Segment 1 (35:24) Bradley mentioned his comment during the GPLv3 process reg...
0x4C: Copyleft vs permissive vs CLAs
August 26, 2014 14:30 - 1 hour - 69.4 MBBradley and Karen discuss the talk, Copyleft vs. Permissive vs. Contributor License Agreements: A Veteran’s Perspective by Simo Sorce given at FOSDEM 2013 on Sunday 3 February 2013. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:38) Bradley and Karen introduce Simo's talk. Segment 1 (00:03:02) The slides from Simo's talk are available, if you want to follow along Segment 2 (00:59:50) Bradley menitoned his blog post about CLA's on Conservancy's website. (01:00:10) Segment 3 (01:10:22) ...
0x4B: CLA Panel Discussion
August 05, 2014 11:55 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBBradley and Karen host a panel discussion on CLAs with Van Lindberg and Richard Fontana. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:38) Bradley and Karen introduce the panel discussion. Segment 1 (01:28) The panel guests are Van Lindberg and Richard Fontana. Van quoted from the Apache Corporate CLA. (40:55) Segment 2 (48:17) Bradley and Karen wrap up the discussion. Bradley mentioned the AKG C1000S which we use to record the oggcast. (50:40) Send feedback and comments on the cast to...
0x4A: See LA?
July 30, 2014 21:25 - 44 minutes - 41.4 MBBradley and Karen discuss Contributor Licensing Agreements, which pulls material from Bradley's blog posts on the subject. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) Bradley mentioned FSF's copyright assignment process. (05:50) Bradley mentioned RMS' essay regarding what you should do if a company asks you to assign copyright on Free Software. (14:00) Open Stack is reconsidering their CLA. Bradley mentioned again that goofy Eclipse contributor poster. (27:22) Send feedback and ...
0x49: Why Free Software Phone Doesn't Exist
July 19, 2014 00:10 - 1 hour - 63.6 MBBradley and Karen discuss the talk, Why the free software phone doesn't exist by Aaron Williamson given at FOSDEM 2013 on Sunday 3 February 2013. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:37) Bradley and Karen introduce the talk. Segment 1 (04:06) Aaron's slides area available. Segment 2 (56:41) Bradley mentioned dakota imaging where he used to work. (1:02:15) dacotag imaging Karen mentioned Aaron's OSCON 2010 talk (but we incorrectly said it was 2009). (1:04:35) Send feedback...
0x48: copyleft-next
July 01, 2014 14:25 - 1 hour - 88.3 MBBradley and Karen discuss the talk, copyleft-next: an Introduction by Richard Fontana given at FOSDEM 2013 on Sunday 3 February 2013. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:37) Bradley and Karen introduce the talk. Segment 1 (05:37) The slides Fontana's talk on copyleft-next are available. Segment 2 (01:06:51) Bradley mentioned the issue of Noam Chomsky's points on concision (01:13:23). Bradley mentioned the anti-GPL keynote by Tom Preseton-Werner of Github at OSCON 2013. (01:1...
0x47: Why Are You a Software Freedom Zealot?
June 19, 2014 23:44 - 1 hour - 64.5 MBBradley and Karen discuss why software freedom as a political, social and moral issue is important to each of them personally. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) Bradley mentioned that he used to frequently give talks on why software freedom is important to him. There are available on FSF's Audio/Video website three different recordings of that talk, usually titled Software Freedom and the GNU Generation. (01:28) Bradley's first distribution was SLS. (18:20) Bradley me...
0x46: O'Sullivan's Legally Cementing Licences in Legislation
June 03, 2014 15:30 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBBradley and Karen discuss the talk, Legally Cementing Licences in Legislation: Two Law Merchant Models for Free Software Licences by Maureen O’Sullivan given at FOSDEM 2013 on Sunday 3 February 2013. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:37) Bradley mentioned the Planet money t-shirt story (03:04) Bradley mentioned he buys Union made sweat pants (04:42) Segment 1 (00:06:48) Bradley and Karen introduce the talk. Segment 2 (00:07:20) This segment is the talk, Legally Cemen...
0x45: I'm Board
May 27, 2014 17:23 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBBradley 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...
0x44: Oracle v. Google Federal Appeals Court Decision
May 13, 2014 15:33 - 55 minutes - 51.8 MBBradley 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 ...
0x43: State of the GNUnion
October 17, 2013 16:25 - 1 hour - 74.1 MBKaren 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 Advisor...
0x42: libVLC LGPL Relicensing
September 04, 2013 17:31 - 1 hour - 79.6 MBKaren 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 tal...
Episode 0x41: Interview with Jim Zemlin at OSCON 2013
August 14, 2013 14:30 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBBradley 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...
Episode 0x40: Alison Chaiken on Free Software in Cars
August 02, 2013 13:42 - 51 minutes - 47.8 MBNote: 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 asso...
Episode 0x3F: FOSDEM 2013 - AGPLv3 Panel Discussion
July 17, 2013 15:30 - 1 hour - 82.4 MBKaren 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 Ma...
0x3E: Mozilla - Licensing in the Trenches
June 13, 2013 19:21 - 1 hour - 66.8 MBKaren 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 ...
0x3D: Conference Behavior Redux
May 28, 2013 08:30 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MBKaren 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 hav...
0x3C: FOSDEM 2013: How to Share a Trademark
May 07, 2013 16:25 - 1 hour - 77.8 MBKaren 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 sou...