Episodes
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 instead of listening to our audio and/or follow
along with Zach's slides.
Segment 2 (00:53:17)
Please note: Bradley and Karen recorded
these comments before the init system coupling
referendum completed, which is why Karen and Bradley don't discuss
...
Published 12/24/14
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 will support Conservancy generally. (05:30)
Dan will of course need to follow Conservancy's
travel policy since Conservancy will fund his travel. (06:50)
Bradley discussed the backstory on the Groupon attempt
to steal GNOME's name. GNOME...
Published 12/11/14
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 than numerical order by
episode number).
Bradley and Karen introduce the interview.
Segment 1 (01:20)
This segment is an interview with Richard M. Stallman on the occasion of GNU's
thirtieth anniversary.
RMS mentioned the
LibreJS project. (26:10)
Segment 2 (33:58)
Bradley and Karen discuss the...
Published 11/24/14
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 as circumvention technique under DMCA. Here's an amusing joke press release about the
issue. (03:10)
There isn't much documentation online of Bruce Perens
live DMCA violation, but this
article appears to be the main one on the subject, and there is also
this interview (06:46).
Bradley and Karen talked about
the joint FSF/Conservancy...
Published 11/11/14
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Segment 0 (00:37)
Karen asked if Bradley had heard of the Gamergate
situation. (01:30)
Matthew Garrett wrote a blog post regarding this topic entitled Actions have
consequences (or: why I'm not fixing Intel's bugs any more)
(10:23)
Mathew was attacked on
LKML about this blog post (10:50)
Lennart
Poettering also wrote an essay recently about aggression and attacking
people in Free Software communities. (12:12)
Karen mentioned the...
Published 10/23/14
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. (05:04)
Bradley mentioned that Linus Torvalds argued Red Hat
was kowtowing to Microsoft using offensive language. (07:57)
Karen mentioned that Linus
called GNOME an unholy mess. (19:05)
...
Published 10/09/14
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 some status governed by §170(b)(1)(A)
of the tax code. (Most Free Software charities, such as Conservancy,
are classifed as non-profit charities under §170(b)(1)(A)(vi).)
(05:10)
Bradley mentioned this issue had been discussed on FLOSS Foundations' mailing list
...
Published 09/23/14
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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.
Segment 1 (35:24)
Bradley mentioned his comment
during the GPLv3 process regarding the Ty Coon issue. (41:20)
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Published 09/11/14
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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
post about CLA's on Conservancy's website. (01:00:10)
Segment 3 (01:10:22)
Bradley and Karen are still trying to decide what to do about the FOSDEM 2014 talks.
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Published 08/26/14
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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 to record the oggcast. (50:40)
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Published 08/05/14
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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 again that goofy Eclipse contributor poster. (27:22)
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Published 07/30/14
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 talk (but we incorrectly said it was 2009). (1:04:35)
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Published 07/18/14
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 anti-GPL keynote by Tom
Preseton-Werner of Github at OSCON 2013. (01:14:53)
Bradley and Karen discussed the
Harvey Birdman Rule. (1:27:45)
Bradey mentioned a comment he posted
...
Published 07/01/14
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
Generation. (01:28)
Bradley's first distribution was SLS. (18:20)
Bradley mentioned that OpenStack
was denied 501(c)(6) trade association status by the IRS. (37:56)
Karen mentioned the...
Published 06/19/14
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 talk.
Segment 2 (00:07:20)
This segment is 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. You can follow along
with...
Published 06/03/14
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:44)
An
image of Alfie chewing on the antler (01:22)
Karen
is running for the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors. (05:15)
Bradley once criticized the CNRI OPEN SOURCE
LICENSE AGREEMENT (used for parts of Python), because it is governed by
the laws of a place that doesn't exist. (06:48)
Bradley mentioned a Planet
Money episode that talked about it's “too easy” to incorporate
in Delaware (23:50)
Segment 1 (00:32:25)
...
Published 05/27/14
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...
Published 05/13/14
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)
Segment 2 (01:14:53)
Private
Internet Access became a new GNOME Advisory Board Member.
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Published 10/17/13
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)
Segment 1 (00:05:52)
Jean-Baptiste Kempf slides
are available for this talk.
Segment 2 (01:03:20)
Bradley had written a a blog post
about the VLC relicensing. (01:03:48)
Bradley...
Published 09/04/13
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(c)(6).
Bradley referenced this post which ocurred in this thread about Linus saying Greg KH is a door-mat. (26:36, 34:55)
The OSCON session...
Published 08/14/13
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 industry.
Alison mentioned the Genivi
Alliance, which is an industry trade association with some interest in
“Open Source”.
Alison presented a session at LibrePlanet
about the Right to Repair act in Massachusetts. (00:14:30)
Alison encouraged listens to get involved with...
Published 08/02/13
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
FOSDEM 2013. The speakers, in the order their voices are heard, are Tom
Marble (introduction), Richard
Fontana (moderator), Bradley
M. Kuhn, Eileen
Evans, and Christopher
...
Published 07/17/13
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 GNOME Foundation privacy campaign (04:11)
Segment 1 (00:04:57)
Gerv's slides
from his FOSDEM 2013 talk can be downloaded from FOSDEM's website.
Segment 2 (00:51:48)
Bradley and...
Published 06/13/13
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 mentioned that he'd blogged in the past that proprietary
software companies also have issues of sexism at conferences (05:58)
Bradley mentioned the How to Perform Like
...
Published 05/28/13
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 unable to find a
recording. (57:04)
Note that most of the time the word source was used in the talk
and Karen's comments, it means origin, not source
code. (01:05:55)
...
Published 05/07/13
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