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Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:37)
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Bradley mentioned
his blog post about the supporter program as well. (00:09:30)
Segment 1 (00:16:16)
Bradley and Karen pick up on a topic original discussed in Segment 1
of FaiF 0x02.
(00:16:50)
Bradley discussed the Laurie
Stearns' article from the California Law Review, entitled
Copy Wrong: Plagiarism, Process, Property, and the Law
(00:23:50)
Bradley mentioned The
GNOME Foundation Copyright Assignment Guidelines that he
co-authored. (00:28:05)
Bradley mentioned the Doris
Kearns Goodwin Plagiarism controversy, and how it would have been
simply redressed if the material she reused had been
copylefted. (00:29:26)
Karen mentioned that
Flickr
made different policies for CC-BY-SA'd works when selling printed
versions. (32:30)
Bradley mentioned that even software freedom advocates just comply
with the copyleft licenses and don't work collaboratively, particularly
during hostile forks, using Conservancy's
Kallithea project as an example. (00:35:25)
Bradley reiterated a point he made in FaiF 0x08,
where he discussed that Linus Torvalds switched to GPL for Linux because
he realized non-commercial restrictions weren't appropriate. (00:37:50)
Bradley mentioned the hostile fork of GCC called egcs.
The H-Online years later wrote a long article that discussed the egcs fork
egcs fork. (00:39:46)
Bradley mentioned that plagiarism is ultimately about attribution, and
modern DVCS systems makes attribution easy and renders plagiarism
impossible (if DVCS logs are accurate). (00:44:15)
Bradley mentioned that he continually has learned the lesson that if
you let your employer keep copyright, you lose everything you had when you
switch employers (if the work isn't copylefted). (00:47:00)
Bradley discussed the methods of attribution required in
GPLv3. (00:50:05)
Bradley mentioned that copyright notices are the primary method of
attribution in copyleft licenses, and even non-copyleft ones
too. (00:53:19)
Karen discussed the attribution requirements in text of
CC-BY-SA 4.0. (00:53:49)
Bradley wants to do a whole FaiF show about how CC-BY-SA
may not be a true copyleft since it has no source code requirement
(00:54:40)
Bradley mentioned the “fake name” that film directors use
when they wish to disavow a work they aren't happy with. The name is, in
fact, Alan
Smithee, and indeed the 1984 film Dune
lists Smithee as a director even though David Lynch is known publicly to
be the director. (00:58:40)
Bradley mentioned the unfair
accusations against Red Hat when they stopped publishing their internal
Linux Git repository and instead released a more standard
ChangeLog. (01:05:30)
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