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Legal Basics for Developers

Free as in Freedom episode 0x16

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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)

Segment 1 (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


Karen's New Job; Supreme Court on Patents

Free as in Freedom episode 0x12

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Karen announces her new job, and Bradley and Karen discuss the recent USA Supreme Court decisions on patents.

Running time: 00:54:31.

Show Notes

Be sure to make sure your feeds available on faif.us if you haven't already!

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:37)

Segment 1 (28:58)

Tags: bkuhn, karen, sflc, patents, gnome


Copyleft, -or-later, and Basics of Compatibility

Free as in Freedom episode 0x09

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Bradley and Karen discuss types of copyleft generally and introduce the basics of license compatibility and -or-later clauses.

Running time: 00:41:57.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:38)

Tags: agpl, license compatibility, copyrights, gpl, bkuhn, gplv3, karen, sflc, fsf, mpl, or-later


Revoked?

Free as in Freedom episode 0x07

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Bradley and Karen discuss a few corrections from previous shows, and then discuss misunderstandings about the GPL regarding “revocation” of the GPL.

Running time: 00:44:45.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:34)

Segment 1 (12:19)

Tags: bkuhn, copyrights, gpl, medical-devices, conferences, karen, sflc, fsf, correction, revocation


Inducing Fryers

Free as in Freedom episode 0x05

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Bradley and Karen welcome special co-presenter and guest, Aaron Williamson, to discuss the OpenBSD email regarding purported FBI backdoors. In the main segment, they discuss the amicus brief filed by SFLC (where Aaron and Karen work) in the Global-Tech Appliances v. SEB USA Supreme Court case.

Running time: 00:54:59.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:37)

Segment 1 (14:18)

Final (54:16)

These show notes are Copyright © 2010, Karen Sandler and Bradley M. Kuhn of Free as in Freedom, and are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 Unported license (CC-By-SA-3.0 Unported).

Tags: bkuhn, karen, sflc, patents, aaronw


Goodbye, and Ahoy Hoy!

Software Freedom Law Show episode 0x2e & 0x00

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Bradley and Karen announced that the Software Freedom Law Show is over. Karen and Bradley announced a new show, called Free as in Freedom, that is a joint effort by Karen (still at the SFLC) and Bradley (no longer at SFLC).

Running time: 00:32:32.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:28)

  • Bradley mentioned OsamaK is not happy at Bradley and Karen for not having a new oggcast for a month. (00:45)
  • Bradley no long works at the Software Freedom Law Center. He now works full time at the Software Freedom Conservancy. (02:00)
  • Bradley thinks everything related to FLOSS should be called “Software Freedom”. (03:10)
  • Karen and Bradley mention that many people in the software freedom world are involved in multiple organizations. (04:00)
  • Karen is an officer and lawyer to Software Freedom Conservancy. (04:30)
  • Conservancy provides non-profit infrastructure and services. (05:10)
  • Conservancy helps software freedom projects focus on development, and aggregate projects into one place. (06:20)
  • Conservancy will be expanding its service plan now that Bradley is full time. (06:46)
  • Conservancy will try do copyright assignment in a community-focused way, only if the developers want it. Conservancy will also do much more GPL enforcement than it has previously. (07:20)
  • Bradley mentioned that Matthew Garrett has been doing some GPL enforcement, and Bradley thanked him for it publicly. (07:50)
  • Karen thinks we'll see more enforcement over time, by more people. (08:14)
  • Bradley wants to help Conservancy's member projects do more fundraising for initiatives to fund software development activity. (08:40)
  • Bradley mentioned that Matt Mackall is doing Mercurial development funded through Conservancy. (09:20)
  • As of earlier this year, Bradley is a volunteer director of the FSF, and now has additional volunteer work that he needs to do, while Conservancy (his former volunteer work) becomes his day job. (11:09)
  • Bradley mentions that once you start doing something in the software freedom world, it's hard to stop once people start to rely on your work. (12:30)
  • Conservancy handles a lot of “boring” but essential stuff for developers to continue in their project. (14:20)
  • Bradley mentioned that his early volunteer work at FSF was also doing the boring stuff, and indeed a lot of his work has been willing to do the boring stuff (15:30)
  • Karen mentions that no one fights over the work that just needs to get done. (16:30)
  • Bradley discussed the fact that for-profit corporate control of projects is dangerous, and one of the things Conservancy and similar non-profits offers is an opportunity to have a non-profit with the public interest at heart in the center of their community. (17:39)
  • Bradley mentioned the LibreOffice by the Document Foundation (18:03)
  • Karen points out that for-profit and non-profit go hand-in-hand. But, Bradley argues that steward of a FLOSS project should always be a non-profit. Karen agrees. (19:00-19:30)
  • Bradley doesn't really believe that there are projects that would “never happen” without a for-profit company starting it. Karen disagrees.
  • The Software Freedom Law Show is over This is the last episode of the Software Freedom Law Show. (21:10)
  • Karen will make sure that the SFLC RSS feeds remain valid. Bradley points out that there are new RSS feeds for both the mp3 version and the ogg version of the new show, Free as in Freedom (21:33, 22:41)
  • The new show is basically just the Karen and Bradley show, now named Free as in Freedom, hosted on faif.us. (23:43)
  • Bradley mentioned that everywhere he's ever worked, he always had root on most of the boxes. He doesn't know what it's like to work somewhere and not have root. (27:50)
  • Karen got in trouble at her first law firm job for installing software on computers. (28:21)
  • Dan Scott sent a gift to Bradley and Karen Soap with 20-Ds in them.

Tags: bkuhn, karen, sflc, conservancy, non-profits


Software Freedom Law Show: Episode 0x2D:Updated Discussion

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Karen and Bradley discuss the enforcement activities of the Software Freedom Conservancy, recent conferences and medical devices.

Running time: 35:21.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:33)

Motions for Judgment

Software Freedom Law Show episode 0x29

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Karen, Bradley and Aaron talk about SFLC's motion for default judgment against Westinghouse Digital Electronics, a defendant in the ongoing lawsuit concerning GPL violations of BusyBox.

Running time: 38:15.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:33)

  • Bradley quoted from Act I Scene II of Hamlet, in which he once played Bernardo in a college production. Karen never played Bernardo (01:02)
  • Aaron mentioned Shakespeare's son Hamnet. (01:53)
  • The play Karen quotes from is indeed Julius Caesar. She forgot that she also had the lines: “My lord?” and “I will, my lord. ”(02:25)
  • The Bilski decision once again did not come out this week. The Supreme Court publishes all decisions on its website. The SCOTUS blog provides up to date information about the court schedule, including a live blog on the mornings when decisions are announced.(03:03)
  • Karen thinks that Aaron and Bradley do not know that the cake is a lie. (03:54)
  • Karen mentions patent number 3,987,541: Cutting guide for layered cake. (04:39)
  • SFLC filed a motion in the Southern District of New York against Westinghouse Digital Electronics, a defendant in the ongoing lawsuit concerning GPL violations of BusyBox. (05:10)
  • The original complaint in the ongoing case can be found here. (08:05)
  • The motion for default judgment or summary judgment can be found here. (09:00)
  • Shira Scheindlin is not related to Judge Judy, at least to the best of our knowledge. (10:23)
  • Karen mentioned Serving Sara, so we provide the obligatory IMDB link. Other sources for how service should be provided would probably be more reliable. (15:30)
  • Sewer service, as described by Aaron, is invalid service. Or you can use google, but that will mostly teach you about sewers and their maintenance. (18:46)

Tags: compliance, copyrights, gpl, aaronw, bkuhn, karen, sflc, conservancy


GPL Enforcement

Software Freedom Law Show episode 0x1D

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Karen and Bradley discuss enforcement of the GNU General Public License, and in particular the lawsuits recently filed by SFLC against various violators of the GPL.

Running time: 00:33:11.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:32)

Segment 1 (17:50)

Tags: bkuhn, karen, sflc, gplv3, copyrights, gpl


Patently False

Software Freedom Law Show episode 0x0C

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Karen and Bradley discuss the intersections of software patents with FLOSS licenses. They give a general overview of how patents generally interact with FLOSS, and then discuss the patent provisions of specific FLOSS licenses.

Running time: 00:46:50.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:35)

Segment 1 (15:08)

Segment 2 (38:20)

Tags: bkuhn, karen, sflc, gplv3, patents


A Guide to GPL Compliance

Software Freedom Law Show episode 0x0A

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This episode is primarily composed of a recorded speech that Bradley made on complying with the GPL. An introduction and wrap-up segment with Bradley and Karen is included.

Note: The audio available for this podcast between 06:06 and 10:45 US/Eastern on 31 March 2009 had a mono/stereo issue. That has been corrected. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Running time: 00:56:26.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:29)

Segment 1 (06:53)

You can follow along with the slides during this segment.

To follow along with the slides, note the time indices at the end of each bullet point. When the time on the podcast reaches the index listed at the end of a given bullet point, it is time to switch to the next bullet point (with space). The slides should work in any Javascript-enabled browser.

Segment 2 (52:58)

The Compliance Guide has since been made available since the talk was recorded. (53:56).

Tags: bkuhn, karen, sflc, gplv3, compliance


Eben Moglen on Origins of Copyright and Patents

Software Freedom Law Show episode 0x05

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In a speech recorded in December 2008, Eben Moglen speaks about the origins of copyright and patents from a historical perspective.

Running time: 00:54:50.

Show Notes

[Photo of Eben Moglen]

This episode features a recording of Eben Moglen's keynote, entitled Collaborative Innovation for Development: Enlarging the Global Commons at the Knowledge Commons' Collaborative Innovation for Development conference on Enlarging the Global Commons in New Delhi, India on 6 December 2008.

In the speech, Eben discusses in depth the origins of the copyright and patent system, and how Free Software interacts with that history.

Tags: sflc, moglen


Introducing the Software Freedom Law Show

The Software Freedom Law Show episode 0x00

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The Software Freedom Law Center is proud to announce its new podcast, The Software Freedom Law Show. Hosted by Bradley M. Kuhn and Karen Sandler, this bi-weekly podcast will bring interviews and explanations on legal issues related to Free, Libre and Open Software Software (FLOSS).

Our first episode introduces the format and the hosts interview each other so you can get to know them better.

Running time: 00:32:39.

Show Notes

Our first episode introduces the format and the hosts.

Segment 0 (at 00:23)

Segment 1 (at 16:17)

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Tags: bkuhn, karen, numbering, fsf, sflc, conservancy