Episode 0x17: Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful

Bradley and Karen play a speech recording of Richard Fontana's
presentation at OSCON 2011, entitled Contributor Agreements
Considered Harmful.

Note: this show and the slides from Richard Fontana are licensed
under CC-By-SA-3.0
USA. This will be the new license of the show for this and future
episodes.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:34)

This show is a recording of Richard Fontana's talk Contributor
Agreements Considered Harmful. (03:13)

Segment 1 (03:34)

Richard Fontana has made his slides from his talk
available on his website.

Bradley
live-dented Fontana's talk from OSCON.

Richard Fontana references Michael
Meeks' essay, Some thoughts on Copyright Assignment
(29:55)

Segment 2 (45:17)

Bradley and Karen were on a panel discussion on copyright
assignment at Desktop Summit. (45:33)

Bradley mentioned that Mark Shuttleworth's
obsession with cadence had a similar weird effect on a different
debate. (58:30)

Karen has done some pro bono work for
PubPat, and also Question
Copyright (01:01:30)

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