Free as in Freedom

Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Simon Phipps ' and Amanda Brock 's talk from FOSDEM 2013 , entitled Should We Embrace App Stores? . Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:33) Karen and Bradley introduce the talk. Segment 1 (00:03:03) Simon and Amanda used no slides during their talk. Amanda misquotes Bradley at 07:30. Bradley said: An unenforced copyleft is the moral equivalent of a permissive licen...

Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Gabriel Holloway 's talk from FOSDEM 2013 , entitled FOSS code goes in and never comes out: The Challenge of Sandboxed Proprietary Cloud Services . Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:33) Karen and Bradley introduce the talk. Segment 1 (00:05:48) The speaker's that you hear are: Gabriel Holloway , who gives the talk Till Jaeger asks the first question. A few other...

Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Till Jaeger 's talk from FOSDEM 2013 , entitled What is a derivative work under European Copyright Law? . Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:31) Karen and Bradley introduce the talk. Segment 2 (00:02:41) The speaker's that you hear are: Tom Marble , introduces the talk, and asks one of the questions. Till Jaeger , who gives the talk The slides for Till Jaeger's ta...

Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss the GPL Compliance Panel from FOSDEM 2013 . Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:34) Karen and Bradley have some not-so-witty banter about the FOSDEM 2013 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom . Segment 1 (00:07:19) The speakers on the panel are (in order of appearance): Tom Marble , introduces the panel. Karen Sandler , moderator. Alexios Zavras Richard Sands Bradley M....

Karen and Bradley discuss the LWN article, GnuTLS, copyright assignment, and GNU project governance and other issues related to copyright assignment. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:46) Bradley didn't want his words compared to the Ayn Rand's quote from an interview with Phil Donahue where she said I'm not going to die, it's just that world will end . (02:54) Bradley discussed the reaction to on 0x36 th...

Karen and Bradley discuss RMS' essay on FSF's website, Ubuntu SpyWare: What To Do , and Shuttleworth's Slashdot interview that responds somewhat to RMS' comments . Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) Karen and Bradley discuss RMS' essay on FSF's website, Ubuntu SpyWare: What To Do (08:50) Bradley mentioned how Fab discovered (and discussed on Linux Outlaws 280 ) how a search for “ter” in eff...

Karen and Bradley discuss the copyright decision in the Oracle vs. Google case . Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:33) Bradley mentioned the BPM for the human heart is to the Bee Gee's song, STayin' Alive . (01:55) FaiF's bandwidth is provided by OSU-OSL. Please donate to OSU-OSL . (09:50) Bradley and Karen discuss the copyright decision in the Oracle vs. Google case . (12:26) Bradley couldn't find quickl...

Karen gives an update on the advocacy of software freedom for medical devices, while Bradley continually takes the show off-topic. Show Notes: Bradley mentioned Jimmy Fallon's … And We're Back script. Barnaby Jack showed lethal attacks exist on wireless devices. (06:25) Karen previously gave a talk about her heart condition on the show . (07:13) Hugo Campos, who also works on this issue . (...

Karen and Bradley play and discuss Richard Fontana 's LinuxCon North America 2012 talk , The Tragedy of the Commons Gatekeepers . Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:33) Bradley and Karen introduce Richard Fontana's talk. Segment 1 (02:48) Richard Fontana's slides are available online , and there is also a well-written summary of the talk available on LWN . Segment 2 (47:15) Karen and Bradley discuss Fontan...

Karen and Bradley play and discuss Matthew Garrett 's talk, Linux in a UEFI Secure Boot World talk from LinuxCon North America 2012 . Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:34) Bradley mentioned that people at LinuxCon North America 2012 were talking about this article, wherein it states 51% of survey respondents believe [bad] weather can impact cloud computing . Bradley and Karen pointed out all the many ways...

Karen and Bradley interview Christopher Allan Webber of the GNU Mediagoblin project. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:31) Karen and Bradley introduce the interview. Segment 0 (00:56) Karen and Bradley interview their guest, Christopher Allan Webber of the GNU Mediagoblin project. GNU Mediagoblin is licensed under the Affero GPL , but does not require copyright assignment and the developers have no plans...

Karen and Bradley discuss recent coverage of GNOME by the technology press, and more generally issues and concerns with the technology press. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:44) Bradley couldn't find support for his claim about in the can , and Karen may be right.(01:15) Bradley mentioned that the GNOME Foundation negative press recently is akin to what Harry Reid did by stating rumors regarding Romney'...

Karen and Bradley discuss OSCON and GUADEC . Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) Bradley represents FSF on the GNOME Advisory Board . (02:20) Bradley points out it's very dangerous when you can buy voting rights of a 501(c)(3) by paying money, such as the structure of OSI. Karen notes that contribution-based membership works very well for GNOME. (03:50) Bradley is concerned about the future of OSI's lic...

Karen and Bradley play and discuss Mike Linksvayer 's FOSDEM 2012 talk, Creative Commons 4.0 licenses and other opportunities for FLOSS/free culture legal/policy intersections from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom . Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:38) Bradley and Karen suggest that you use the slides below when listening to Mike's talk. Segment 1 (05:51) Mike Linksvayer's slides for this...

Karen and Bradley discuss FSF's announcement of FSF's white paper on Restricted Boot , which critiques Red Hat's approach to restricted boot for its Fedora distribution and Canonical, Ltd.'s approach to restricted boot for its Ubuntu distribution . Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:38) Karen mentioned it's useful that FSF avoids preloaded names. Bradley used FSF's criticism of the term “intellectual...

Karen and Bradley play and discuss Philippe Laurent 's FOSDEM 2012 talk, Open Licences before European Courts from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom . Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) Karen and Bradley mention there is one talk remaining after this one from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom . Segment 1 (03:04) Philippe's slides are available from faif.us . Note: the slides...

Karen and Bradley interview Deb Nicholson of Open Invention Network , GNU MediaGoblin and Open Hatch . Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) Karen announced her pregnancy . (01:50) Bradley will be at OSCON, Karen might be, and Karen will be at GUADEC. Bradley will be at LinuxCon North America and LinuxCon Europe. (03:00) Segment 1 (04:40) Deb Nicholson was previously on the show as Episode 0x25: FOSDEM 20...

Karen and Bradley discuss Software Freedom Conservancy 's announcement regarding its coordinated license compliance program . Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) Karen and Bradley discuss Software Freedom Conservancy 's announcement regarding its coordinated license compliance program . Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us> . You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on o...

Karen and Bradley play and discuss Richard Fontana's Linux Collaboration Summit 2012 talk, The Decline of the GPL, and What To Do About It . Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) Karen mentioned a legal summit where Richard and Karen spoke; the same event where the organizers said having Bradley speak would be the same as having the caterers speak. Segment 1 (04:46) Fontana's slides for this talk are avai...

Karen and Bradley play and discuss Loïc Dachary 's FOSDEM 2012 talk, Can for-profit companies enforce copyleft without becoming corrupt like MySQL AB? from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom . Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:35) Bradley and Karen discuss FOSDEM again. Segment 1 (10:10) Unfortunately, we don't have Loïc's slides. Segment 2 (32:03) Bradley and Karen comment on Lo&iu...

Karen and Bradley play and discuss Allison Randal 's FOSDEM 2012 talk, FLOSSing for Good Legal Hygiene: Stories from the Trenches from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom . Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:35) Bradley talked about the #faif IRC conversation regarding hot milk recipe and its copyright. (01:54) Segment 1 (07:10) Allison's slides are available from faif.us . Segment 2 (35:00) Ka...

Karen and Bradley play and discuss Michael Meeks 's FOSDEM 2012 talk, Risks and Benefits of Copyright Assignment from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom . Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:35) Bradley and Karen introduce Michael's talk. Segment 1 (01:56) Michael's slides are available from faif.us and from his blog post on the talk . Segment 2 (26:47) Bradley mentioned GNU Mediagoblin as an e...

Karen and Bradley play and discuss Panel on Patents , moderated by Karen Sandler , with Ciarán O'Riordan , Benjamin Henrion , and Deb Nicholson from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom . Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:35) This American Life issued a retraction of the story we mentioned on 0x24 . This American Life released a transcript or mp3 of the audio of the retraction. (02:21) K...

Karen and Bradley play and discuss Panel on Application Stores , moderated by Richard Fontana , with Giovanni Battista Gallus , Bradley M. Kuhn , and Hugo Roy from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom . Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:34) Karen and Bradley introduce the panel. Segment 1 (02:15) This is the recording of the panel. Some of the questions aren't completely audible, but Dan did a...

Karen and Bradley play and discuss John Sullivan 's talk entitled Is Copyleft Being Framed? from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom . Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:34) Dave Neary wrote an article based on his FOSDEM talk , and we're trying our best to fix the audio and have a FaiFCast of his talk, but it may not be salvagable. Segment 1 (06:35) Follow along with John's slides from his FOS...