Episode 0x18: 12 Years of Compliance: A Historical Perspective

Bradley and Karen play a speech recording of Bradley's presentation
at OSCON 2011, entitled 12 Years of FLOSS License Compliance: A
Historical Perspective.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:36)

Bradley mentioned that time travel requires special
verb tenses according to the Douglas Adams'
book, The
Restaurant at the End of the Universe. (01:48)

Bradley gave a keynote at
Ohio Linux Fest 2011 (01:58)

Segment 1 (05:02)

This segment is a recording of Bradley's OSCON
2011 talk, entitled 12 Years of Copyleft License Compliance: A
Historical Perspective. The slides are
available on Bradley's website so you can follow along during the
talk if you like.

There is a live denting identi.ca thread from
Bradley's talk. (03:50)

Bradley
wrote a blog post about a minor GPL violation in the Emacs
codebase. It has since
been fixed.

RMS mentioned the NeXT/Objective C GPL violation in his essay, Copyleft:
Pragmatic Idealism.

Segment 2 (52:35)

Bradley will be speaking at the Google Summer of Code Mentor
Summit 2011 and at LinuxCon
Europe 2011. (55:05)

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