0x5C: Basic FLOSS Concepts: Licensing 101

Bradley 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 times. (06:50)

Bradley mentioned the court case, UNIX
System Laboratories, Inc. v. Berkeley Software Design, Inc., which
resulted in releasing the parts of BSD that could be Free Software. (12:27)

Bradley mentioned the FSF's Free Software Definition
(13:11)

Bradley mentioned OSI's
Open Source Definition (13:16)

Apparently, the problem of categorization is called Categorization in
Philosophy. (14:30)

The issue of Open Source not being trademarked is discussed in this
essay by Richard Stallman. (15:44)

The basic categorizations of types of FLOSS licenses are copyleft and non-copyleft.

Karen suggests reading GPLv2 and GPLv3. (39:31)

Bradley made a crude
drawing of the spectrum of licenses. (40:20)

Bradley mentioned the The
Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement (55:40)

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