Episode 0x00: Goodbye and Ahoy Hoy

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 not
happy 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 now
works 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 freedom
world are involved in multiple organizations. (04:00)

Karen is an officer
and lawyer to Software Freedom Conservancy. (04:30)

Conservancy provides non-profit
infrastructure and services. (05:10)

Conservancy helps software freedom projects focus on development, and
aggregate projects into one place. (06:20)

Conservancy will be expanding its service plan now that Bradley is
full time. (06:46)

Conservancy will try do copyright assignment in a community-focused
way, 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 some
GPL enforcement, and Bradley thanked
him for it publicly. (07:50)

Karen thinks we'll see more enforcement over time, by more
people. (08:14)

Bradley wants to help Conservancy's member projects do
more fundraising for initiatives to fund software development
activity. (08:40)

Bradley mentioned that Matt
Mackall is doing Mercurial development funded through
Conservancy. (09:20)

As
of 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 software
freedom world, it's hard to stop once people start to rely on your
work. (12:30)

Conservancy handles a lot of “boring” but essential stuff
for developers to continue in their project. (14:20)

Bradley mentioned that his early volunteer work at FSF was also doing
the 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 to
get done. (16:30)

Bradley discussed the fact that for-profit corporate control of
projects 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 Document
Foundation (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 over
This is the last episode of the Software Freedom
Law Show. (21:10)

Karen will make sure that the SFLC RSS feeds remain valid. Bradley
points 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 root
on 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 software
on computers. (28:21)

Dan Scott sent a gift to Bradley
and Karen Soap with 20-Ds
in them.

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