February 2, 2010

Karen and Bradley discuss an update on the Google Books Settlement, some follow up from 0x1F regarding feedback on the mobile phones show, and discuss Karen's new position as General Counsel.

Running time: 00:48:24.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:28)

• A listener wrote in to say that the the A7 Model of the FreeRunner is still available. (04:20)
• Bradley mentioned an identica discussion with Evan Prodromou. (04:47)
• In the last show, we forgot to mention the Mer project, which is trying to build a fully Free Software system for the N900 and related devices. (07:02)
• Bradley mentioned a story linked to by Glyn Moody on identi.ca that showed how much dominance of the “smart phone” market Research in Motion has over other alternatives. (08:58)
• The Defective by Design campaign has a petition against DRM on the iPad. (13:17)
• Bradley mentioned that Amazon removed the book 1984 from some people's Kindle's, an ironic example of DRM. (13:37)
• Bradley mentioned prcutler's comment about the iPad. (15:32)
• Bradley mentioned they have purposely slowed sales of iPhones in New York City. (16:03)

Segment 1 (19:20)

• FSF made another objection to the (now amended) Google Books Settlement with the help of the SFLC. (20:10)
• Bradley mentioned the historical positions on the importance of Free as in Freedom documentation. (03:40)

Episode 0x16 discussed the Google Books Settlement in more depth. (32:10)

Segment 2 (33:30)

• Karen discussed what she does as General Counsel does for SFLC.
• Karen mentioned the show where we discussed Form 990s for non-profits (40:20)

Tags: bkuhn, karen, documentation, mobile, android

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September 15, 2009

Karen and Bradley discuss issues surrounding the licensing of software documentation, and FSF's objection to the Google Books Proposed Settlement.

Running time: 00:50:41.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:31)

• Bradley mentioned the topic for this show was suggested on identi.ca (01:15) by Dan Scott (01:39) who works on a project called Evergreen (02:36)
• Dan had asked earlier about FaiF documentation licenses. (03:04) Bradley met him at FSOSS, which is held at Seneca at York. (Bradley misspoke during the podcast and confused Seneca and York.) (01:30)
• Bradley talked about this history of the GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL). (04:40)
• Bradley mentioned the (mostly) defunct Open Publication License. (05:37)
• Karen referenced the Debian decision about FDL. (06:20)
• The FDL allows for invariant sections. (10:50)
• Debian decided that invariant sections are not DFSG-free. (11:20)
• FSF released GNU FDL 1.3 to allow relicensing of some FDL works under CC-By-SA. FSF's announced this in November 2008 and Bradley blogged about it. (19:00)
• FSF does have a discussion draft of the GNU Simpler Free Documentation License available. (22:03)
• Bradley recommends licensing documentation under (GPLv3-or-later|CC-By-SA-2.0-or-later) or (GPLv3-or-later|FDL-2.1-or-later|CC-By-SA-2.0-or-later). (28:00, 32:05)
• Bradley restated his hatred for the term “dual licensing” because of its ambiguity. He refers to the above as “disjunctive dual licensing” (30:10)
• Bradley and Karen mentioned they will talk about public domain eventually, but for the moment, people should look at CC-0. (32:30)
• Karen says we'll do the public domain show before Episode 0xDEAD, which would be our 57,006th show.

Segment 1 (33:47)

• Karen talked about the SFLC helped the FSF file an objection to the Google Books settlement. (34:50)

Tags: bkuhn, karen, copyrights, license compatibility, documentation