0x44: Oracle v. Google Federal Appeals Court Decision
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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
Oracle v. Google Federal Appeals Court Decision is not an engaging
read, but the lower
court decision was. (09:50)
Karen said: You're out of your
element, Donny! (12:38)
Karen mentioned a tweet from the EFF (15:23)
Bradley mentioned his older blog post about the
previous decision (16:48)
Karen incorrectly said we never recorded a show on the previous
decision, but we did indeed discuss the previous Oracle v. Google decision
in , which Bradley and Karen discussed in Episode 0x35 (18:53)
Karen and Bradley explained what an affirmative
defense, arguments
in the alternative, and merger
doctrine. (21:03)
Bradley mentioned the Apache Software
Foundation is now publicly more against copyleft software than proprietary
software, and that such position is unreasonable, unlike the OpenBSD
position that copyleft and proprietary software are equally bad: a
position Bradley disagrees with but agrees is consistent, reasonable moral
stance. (38:40)
Bradley mentioned his discussions with Mark J. Wielaard of the
Classpath project (52:20)
Bradley and Karen ask people to doante to Conservancy.
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