March 29, 2011

Bradley and Karen discuss two debates going on in the free and open source software community. One recent and seemingly inflated, and one long and confusing.

Running time: 00:43:18.

Show Notes

Segment 1 (03:12)

• Bradley wrote a blog post about the Bionic issues that were raised. (03:44)
• On the old oggcast, Karen and Bradley discussed the Android/Linux system and Bionic specifically. (04:09)
• Karen mentioned an old oggcast where permissive vs. copyleft licensing was discussed. (06:19)
• Jake Edge wrote an LWN article that discussed Bionic (07:58)
• Bradley mentioned Raymond Nimmer's blog that started the debate (10:52)
• Bradley also mentioned Edward Naughton's blog post and paper on Bionic. (11:38)
• Raymond Nimmer is not David Nimmer, who is known for writings on copyright (18:10)
• There is now an disturbing group on identica, which is more disturbing than a tag about disturbing. (19:15)
• Joe Brockmeier did some research on Edward Naughton's ties to Microsoft. (20:05)
• Karen mentioned a paper on deep legal analysis of header files and on originality requirements in copyright (24:40)

Segment 2 (26:07)

• Karen wanted to clear up some confusion about the discussion last episode about the “Open Source” and “Free Software” terminology.

Tags: fontana, copyrights, gpl, android, linux, bkuhn, karen, fsf, google

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September 29, 2009

Bradley and Karen give the ath5k talk that they previously gave at the Linux Collaboration Summit in April 2009.

Running time: 00:41:12.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:31)

• Bradley looked for a web reference on the “you'll know it is time to turn the page, when … “, but could find none.

Segment 1 (04:03)

• Follow along with the slides for this talk. (Javascript required for full effect)

Segment 2 (36:55)

• Bradley mentioned his desire to keep a good bridge between the copyleft and non-copyleft communities. (38:35)

Tags: bkuhn, karen, copyrights, gpl, linux