Free as in Freedom

Bradley 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 ins...

Bradley 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...

Karen 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...

Karen 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 a...

Note: 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...

Bradley 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 ....

Bradley 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...

Karen 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 ....

Bradley 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 po...

Bradley 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...

Bradley 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...

Bradley 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 t...

Bradley 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...

Bradley 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 Generati...

Bradley 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...

Bradley 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...

Bradley 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 Ora...

Karen 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) Segmen...

Karen 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...

Bradley 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...

Note: 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...

Karen 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 F...

Karen 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 G...

Karen 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 mention...

Karen 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 un...