Clik here to view.
0x3C: FOSDEM 2013: How to Share a Trademark
Show NotesSegment 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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x3D: Conference Behavior Redux
Show NotesSegment 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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x3E: Mozilla - Licensing in the Trenches
Show NotesSegment 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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Episode 0x3F: FOSDEM 2013 - AGPLv3 Panel Discussion
Show NotesSegment 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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Episode 0x40: Alison Chaiken on Free Software in Cars
Show NotesSegment 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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Episode 0x41: Interview with Jim Zemlin at OSCON 2013
Show NotesBradley 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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x42: libVLC LGPL Relicensing
Show NotesSegment 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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x43: State of the GNUnion
Show NotesSegment 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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x44: Oracle v. Google Federal Appeals Court Decision
Show NotesSegment 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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x45: I'm Board
Show NotesSegment 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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x46: O'Sullivan's Legally Cementing Licences in Legislation
Show NotesSegment 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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x47: Why Are You a Software Freedom Zealot?
Show NotesSegment 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 threedifferentrecordings...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x48: copyleft-next
Show NotesSegment 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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x49: Why Free Software Phone Doesn't Exist
Show NotesSegment 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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x4A: See LA?
Show NotesSegment 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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x4B: CLA Panel Discussion
Show NotesSegment 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....
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x4C: Copyleft vs permissive vs CLAs
Show NotesSegment 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 alongSegment 2 (00:59:50)Bradley menitoned his...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x4D: 2013 Interview: Poettering & Day on Sandboxed GNOME Applications
Show NotesSegment 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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x4E: IRS Refusal Redux
Show NotesSegment 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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x4F: Linus Torvalds' Comments at DebConf 2014
Show NotesSegment 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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x5A: Gamergate's Free Software Connection
Show NotesSegment 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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x50: Big Announcements & Evans' FOSDEM 2014 Talk
Show NotesSegment 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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x5B: Interview with RMS on GNU's 30th Anniversary
Show NotesSegment 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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x51: Why Licenses Requiring Use of Trademarks are Non-Free
Show NotesSegment 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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x52: Legal Issues from a Radical Community Angle
Show NotesSegment 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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x53: Can Plagiarism Happen Under Copyleft?
Show NotesSegment 0 (00:00:37)Please donate to to send Dan to a conference. There's a progress bar on faif.us now.You can also donate to support Software Freedom Conservancy, where Bradley and Karen...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x54: Carol Smith at LCA 2015
Show NotesSegment 0 (00:00:35)Bradley encourages those who attend FOSDEM 2015 to attend sign up to attend the Supporter Night Event on 30 January 2015 in Brussels, Belgium.Segment 1 (00:50:11)More Show...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x55: Nick Coghlan at LCA 2015
Show NotesSegment 0 (00:00:35)Bradley and Karen interviewed Nick Coghlan who works for Red Hat and contributes to various Open Source and Free Software projects such as Python. Nick discussed his work...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x56: … & We're Back!
Show NotesBradley and Karen discuss the lawsuit that Christoph Hellwig filed. (07:37)Karen mentioned her LibrePlanet keynote about the VMware lawsuit. (21:30)Bradley's talk at LinuxConf Australia 2015,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x57: Support Conservancy Now!
Show Notes Bradley mentioned Cygnus Solutions, ultimately acquired by Red Hat, which was an early for-profit supporter of copylefted projects.Bradley and Karen discussed the VMware lawsuit.Chris Webber...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x58: Debian Copyright Aggregation
Show NotesSegment 0 (00:38)Note: While it was released just after DebConf16, this episode was recorded well before DebConf16; the discussions about DebConf refer to DebConf15.Bradley mentioned his talk...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x59: Audio Killed the Video Star
Show NotesSegment 0 (00:36)Bradley said in the before time — in the long long ago, which is a reference to the South Park parody of the ST:TOS episode, Miri (01:30)Bradley mentioned when Karen Sandler...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x5C: Basic FLOSS Concepts: Licensing 101
Show NotesSegment 0 (00:35)Bradley mentioned the phrase “fixed in a tangible medium” which appears in the USA copyright law. (03:10)Bradley mentioned the Sherman Antitrust act. (04:05)Bradley mentioned...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x5D: Conference Report, 1st Half of 2016
Show NotesSegment 0 (00:38)Bradley attended and spoke at FOSDEM 2016 and LinuxConf Australia 2016 (03:10)Bradley and Karen co-coordinated the FOSDEM 2016 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom (04:43)Tom...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x5E: Conservancy's ContractPatch Initiative
Show NotesSegment 0 (00:38)Software Freedom Conservancy has two blogposts and a mailing list to discuss the Contract Patch initiative (02:40).Bradley searched for the NPR story he mentioned but just...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x5F: Was 2018 the Year of Non-FOSS Licensing?
Bradley and Karen return, as promised, in 2018 (just barely)! They discuss the many non-FOSS and otherwise software-freedom-unfriendly licenses that have been promulgated in 2018.Show Notes:Segment 0...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x60: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? (Part I)
Bradley and Karen pull back the curtain and begin the process of preparing their joint keynote at FOSDEM 2019, entitled: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today?: Confessions of Activists Who...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x61: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? (Part II)
Bradley and Karen continue the process of preparing their joint keynote at FOSDEM 2019, entitled: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today?: Confessions of Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x62: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? (Part III)
Bradley and Karen have the last pre-talk installment of discussing the preparation for their joint keynote at FOSDEM 2019, entitled: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today?: Confessions of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x63: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? (Part IV)
In their final installment regarding their joint keynote at FOSDEM 2019, entitled: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today?: Confessions of Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x64: Our Producer Dan Lynch Interviewed at Copyleft Conf 2019
Bradley and Karen interview their own producer, Dan Lynch, on site at Copyleft Conf 2019.Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:46)Karen now teaches teaches a course at Columbia University. (03:40)In addition to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x65: Linux Foundation's Community Bridge
Bradley and Karen discuss and critique the new initiative by the Linux Foundation called CommunityBridge. The podcast includes various analysis that expands upon their blog post about Linux...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x66: The End of Hellwig vs. VMware
Bradley and Karen discuss the details of the completion of the lawsuit (which Conservancy supported) between Christoph Hellwig and VMware in Germany.Show Notes:Segment 0 (00:37)Bradley mentioned the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x67: Analysis of Two Backports of GPLv3 Termination Provisions to GPLv2
Bradley and Karen discuss two additional permissions that can be used to “backport” the GPLv3 Termination provisions to GPLv2— the Kernel Enforcement Statement Additional Permission, and the Red Hat...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x68: Molly De Blanc at CopyleftConf 2019
Bradley and Karen enjoy and discuss Molly De Blanc's keynote at the first annual CopyleftConf, entitled The Margins of Software Freedom, followed by an exclusive interview with Molly!Show Notes:Segment...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x69: Microsoft's E-Book Platform and Other DRM Disasters
Karen and Bradley discuss the end to Microsoft's e-book platform and generally the dangers and disasters that Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) cause for software users and developers.Show...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x6A: Live Show from SeaGL 2019
The first live podcast of Free as in Freedom, hosted at SeaGL 2019 in November 2019. Hear questions from the studio audience and answers from Bradley and Karen.Show Notes:Segment 0 (00:38)Producer Dan...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x6B: GPL Enforcement Investigation DMCA Exemption Request
Software Freedom Conservancy filed multiple exemptions in the USA Copyright Office Triennial Rulemaking Process under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). In this episode, Karen and Bradley...
View ArticleClik here to view.
0x6C: Even More DMCA Exemption Requests!
Karen and Bradley discuss two other DMCA exemptions filed by Software Freedom Conservancy during the 2020/2021 Triennial Rulemaking Process at the copyright office: one for wireless router firmwares...
View ArticleClik here to view.
FOSSY 2023
Come to FOSSY 2023! Show Notes:FOSSY 2023 will happen next week in Portland, OR, USA. Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom...
View Article
