August 16, 2011

Bradley and Karen play and comment on a talk recording of Aaron Williamson's and Karen's presentation at OSCON 2011, entitled Legal Basics for Developers.

Running time: 00:53:53.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:33)

• Bradley mentioned the birthday attack when explaining to Karen how likely it might be that the number of the show might match the number of the day. (01:38)
• This show is a recording of Aaron and Karen's OSCON 2011 talk, Legal Basics for Developers. (02:20)

Segment 1 (05:53)

• The slides for the Legal Basics for Developers are available to follow along with the recording (05:53)

Segment 2 (49:36)

• Richard Fontana gave at a talk at OSCON as well, which was recorded, and Karen and Bradley have asked for his permission to play it. (50:45)
• Bradley asked folks to ping Richard on identi.ca to ask him to allow us to use his audio on the oggcast. (51:05)

Tags: bkuhn, karen, non-commercial, sflc, oscon, fontana, creative-commons, aaronw, patents, copyrights, trademarks, public domain, license compatibility, compliance, non-profits, gnome, questions, conferences, gpl

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February 1, 2011

Bradley and Karen discuss non-commercial-only commons licenses, particularly the CC-By-NC license, and how they compare to Free Culture and Free Software licenses, and why some authors pick NC licenses instead of Free Culture/Software ones.

Running time: 00:49:32.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:36)

• Listeners seeking a show on how to select a Free Software license, differences between copyleft and non-copyleft, and how they interact with copyright are encouraged to listen to episode 0x08 of the old Software Freedom Law Show which covered these topics. Please write in again if that show doesn't cover your questions on the issue. (02:10)
• Bradley reminisced about the crass “Brian and O'Brien” show on Baltimore's B-104 Gary Huddles who was notorious locally in Baltimore because he was implicated in Maryland's version of the 1980s Savings and Loan scandals. (03:30)
• Karen mentioned that freedomdefined.org is the source for the Free Culture definition that defines what licenses are Free Culture licenses. (12:54)
• Bradley suggested listening to some of the old versions of RMS' Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks. In fact, there is an audio recording of the one at MIT on 19 April 2001 that Bradley attended, and an audio recording of the one that Bradley heard at Cardozo Law School. There is audio of the Q&A session, wherein RMS engages in that discussion Bradley mentioned with Free Culture activists. (10:10, 14:04)
• Bradley mentioned that Linus Torvalds switched to GPL for Linux because he realized non-commercial restrictions weren't appropriate. (Search the string GPL on that link to find Linus' answer on that.) (19:00)
• Karen mentioned that Creative Commons did a study considering what people understand commercial vs. non-commercial to mean. (20:43)
• Karen and Bradley discussed the text of CC-By-NC. (23:00)
• Karen mentioned various CC-By-SA licensed derivatives that had been made from Sita Sings the Blues. (38:24)
• Bradley discussed the Harry Potter Lexicon case and Karen mentioned the so-called IP Colloquium discussion on it. (44:30)
• Bradley mentioned Memory Alpha, which is a CC-By-NC wiki regarding Star Trek, which is tolerated by Paramount. (45:20)

Tags: copyrights, creative-commons, gpl, bkuhn, karen, fsf, free-culture, non-commercial

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October 29, 2010

Bradley and Karen discuss the new license of their show, multi-platform Free Software projects and conferences Bradley attended this month.

Running time: 00:46:13.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:32)

• All recordings for the first 0x01 attempt had an annoying audio buzz. (01:18)
• The Free as in Freedom oggcast is now licensed CC-By-SA 3.0 Unported (03:10)
• Karl Fogel is Executive Director of Question Copyright. (03:35)
• Karen mentioned the Free Culture definition. (08:22)
• Larry Lessig presented to an FSF Members Meeting using Mac. (09:22)
• Bradley and Karen argued about whether or not OpenOffice.org and/or Firefox run better on non-GNU/Linux systems than on GNU/Linux. (18:00)
• Bradley and Karen argued about whether or not otherwise proprietary company control of Free Software causes problems by default. (21:10)

Segment 1 (27:00)

• Lara Moy got Ubuntu running on her Mac hardware. (27:30)
• Bradley attended the jQuery Conference Boston 2010 (28:30)
• Bradley was at the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit. (36:26)

Tags: bkuhn, karen, conservancy, creative-commons

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November 10, 2009

Bradley and Karen interview Mike Linksvayer of the Creative Commons .

Running time: 00:49:21.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:28)

• Bradley and Karen discuss whether 0x1A is a “landmark” in hex. (01:00)
• Dan Lynch, SFLS Producer, is a host of Linux Outlaws. (02:25)
• Bradley quoted Larry Wall from one of his 1999 State of the Onion speech. (03:45)

Segment 1 (05:48)

• Our guest is Mike Linksvayer of the Creative Commons. (06:05)
• Mike is the longest serving employee of Creative Commons. (06:56)
• CC-by-SA is the most popular Creative Commons license with the software freedom crowd. (13:40)
• CC-Attribution is another license type that Mike mentioned (14:00)
• Mike quoted from various sections of CC-by-SA to make the point that there are methods to avoid misrepresentation (19:15)
• Mike pointed out fair use can even be used to misrepresent a person's views, so prohibiting derivative works for that purpose sometimes doesn't even help. (24:00)
• Mike, Bradley, and Karen discussed the Wikipedia move from FDL to CC-By-SA. Mike pointed out that a “one magnet” need in copyleft. (26:12)
• Mike mentioned that the Fedora project recently switched to CC-By-SA for their documentation and wikis. (27:17)
• Mike, Bradley and Karen discussed issues related to autonomo.us. (33:00)

Segment 2 (38:47)

• Mike and Karen will follow up to discuss whether CC-By-SA would be a better license for the Software Freedom Law Show or other works by lawyers. (39:20)
• Bradley changed the license of his website to CC-By-SA. (40:10)
• Bradley and Karen discussed identi.ca. (42:00)
• Donald Knuth organized his kitchen around the trash can. (46:00)

Tags: bkuhn, karen, numbering, copyrights, creative-commons