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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 ...
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...
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:...
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. ...
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...
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...
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) Brad...
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 Linu...
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 . (0...
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 Propri...
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?: Confess...
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 t...
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 Activ...
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 NOT...
Bradley and Karen discuss Conservancy's ContractPatch Initiative that will help Free Software developers negotiate their agreements with employers. SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:38) Softwar...
Bradley and Karen discuss Conservancy's conference trips and presentations during the first half of 2016. SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:38) Bradley attended and spoke at FOSDEM 2016 and Li...
Bradley and Karen give a basic introduction of copyright licensing of Open Source and Free Software. SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:35) Bradley mentioned the phrase “fixed in a tangible me...
Bradley and Karen discuss the plan for restarting Free as in Freedom and plans for episodes to come. SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:36) Bradley said in the before time — in the long long a...
Bradley and Karen discuss Conservancy's Debian Copyright Aggregation project . (NOTE: While it was released just after DebConf16, this episode was recorded well before DebConf16; the discuss...
Free as in Freedom host Christopher Allan Webber interviews Karen Sandler and Bradley Kuhn about their work on copyleft and at Software Freedom Conservancy . You can become a Supporter of ...
Bradley and Karen discuss the VMware lawsuit that Software Freedom Conservancy is funding . SHOW NOTES: Bradley and Karen discuss the lawsuit that Christoph Hellwig filed . (07:37) Karen...
Bradley and Karen interview Nick Coghlan , who works onn development and test infrastructure for Red Hat and is heavily involved with the Python community. SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:00:35...
Bradley and Karen interview Carol Smith , Programs and Open Source Community Manager of Google Summer of Code about the program and its policies and procedures. SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00...
Bradley and Karen discuss what plagiarism is (or isn't) and how it interacts with copyleft licenses. SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:00:37) Please donate to to send Dan to a conference . Ther...
Bradley and Karen play and discuss Stefano Zacchiroli 's talk entitled Legal issues from a radical community angle that he gave 12:00 European/Central time on Sunday 2 February 2014 at FO...
Bradley and Karen play and discuss Pam Chestek 's talk entitled Why Licenses Requiring Use of Trademarks are Non-Free that she gave on Sunday 2 February 2014 at FOSDEM 2014 . SHOW NOTES: ...
Karen and Bradley interview Richard M. Stallman on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the GNU Project . NOTE: EPISODE 0X5B WAS RELEASED OUT OF SEQUENCE, BUT THEY ARE IN THE ORDER OF R...
Karen and Bradley announce Conservancy's DMCA filing and Conservancy and FSF's joint launch of the copyleft.org project , and then discuss Eileen Evans ' FOSDEM 2014 talk, entitled Licensin...
NOTE: EPISODE 0X5A WAS RELEASED OUT OF SEQUENCE, BUT THEY ARE IN THE ORDER OF RELEASE DATE ON FAIF.US (RATHER THAN NUMERICAL ORDER). Karen and Bradley discuss connections between the so-ca...
Bradley and Karen discuss and criticize comments made by Linus Torvalds at his Q&A during DebConf 2014 in Portland, OR on 29 August 2014 . SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:37) Bradley and Kare...
Bradley and Karen discuss the key differences between 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(6) organizations in the USA, and discuss recent refusals by the IRS to grant such statuses to Open Source and Free ...
Karen Sandler interviews Lennart Poettering and Alan Day during the GNOME Asia Summit 2013. Bradley and Karen comment on this interview. SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:38) Bradley and Karen i...
Bradley and Karen discuss the talk, Copyleft vs. Permissive vs. Contributor License Agreements: A Veteran’s Perspective by Simo Sorce given at FOSDEM 2013 on Sunday 3 February 2013. S...
Bradley and Karen host a panel discussion on CLAs with Van Lindberg and Richard Fontana . SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:38) Bradley and Karen introduce the panel discussion. SEGMENT 1 (01...
Bradley and Karen discuss Contributor Licensing Agreements, which pulls material from Bradley's blog posts on the subject. SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:36) Bradley mentioned FSF's copyri...
Bradley and Karen discuss the talk, Why the free software phone doesn't exist by Aaron Williamson given at FOSDEM 2013 on Sunday 3 February 2013. SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:37) Bradley...
Bradley and Karen discuss the talk, copyleft-next: an Introduction by Richard Fontana given at FOSDEM 2013 on Sunday 3 February 2013. SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:37) Bradley and Karen i...
Bradley and Karen discuss why software freedom as a political, social and moral issue is important to each of them personally. SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:36) Bradley mentioned that he us...
Bradley and Karen discuss the talk, Legally Cementing Licences in Legislation: Two Law Merchant Models for Free Software Licences by Maureen O’Sullivan given at FOSDEM 2013 on Sunday 3 ...
Bradley and Karen discuss the details, what to worry about, and what the usual duties are when serving on a Board of Directors for a USA non-profit. The discussion is primarily about 501(c)(...
Bradley and Karen explain why they've been gone for so long, and then discuss the recent Oracle v. Google Federal Appeals Court Decision . SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:00:31) Karen is now ...
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss John Sullivan 's talk from FOSDEM 2013 , entitled State of the GNUnion . SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:00:33) Karen and Bradley introduce the talk. ...
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Jean-Baptiste Kempf 's talk from FOSDEM 2013 , entitled Relicensing libVLC and VLC modules from GPL to LGPL . SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:00:28) Th...
Bradley and Karen interview Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the The Linux Foundation . SHOW NOTES: Bradley and Karen interview Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the The Linux Foundati...
Note: initially, from 2013-08-01 18:30 through 2013-08-02 08:40 (US/Eastern), the audio file links in the feed did not work. That has been corrected. Bradley and Karen interview Alison Cha...
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss The panel discussion on the GNU Affero General Public License from FOSDEM 2013 . SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:00:38) Bradley asked for donations ag...
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Gervase Markham 's talk from FOSDEM 2013 , entitled Mozilla: Licensing In The Trenches . SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:00:34) Bradley encouraged list...
Karen and Bradley discuss the sexist comment issue that occurred a few months ago at PyCon USA 2013 . SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:00:34) Bradley and Karen previously discussed conference ...
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Pamela Chestek 's talk from FOSDEM 2013 , entitled How to Share a Trademark . SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:00:33) Karen and Bradley introduce the tal...
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Simon Phipps ' and Amanda Brock 's talk from FOSDEM 2013 , entitled Should We Embrace App Stores? . SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:00:33) Karen and Bra...
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Gabriel Holloway 's talk from FOSDEM 2013 , entitled FOSS code goes in and never comes out: The Challenge of Sandboxed Proprietary Cloud Services . ...
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Till Jaeger 's talk from FOSDEM 2013 , entitled What is a derivative work under European Copyright Law? . SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:00:31) Karen a...
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss the GPL Compliance Panel from FOSDEM 2013 . SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:00:34) Karen and Bradley have some not-so-witty banter about the FOSDEM 201...
Karen and Bradley discuss the LWN article, GnuTLS, copyright assignment, and GNU project governance and other issues related to copyright assignment. SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:46) Brad...
Karen and Bradley discuss RMS' essay on FSF's website, Ubuntu SpyWare: What To Do , and Shuttleworth's Slashdot interview that responds somewhat to RMS' comments . SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 ...
Karen and Bradley discuss the copyright decision in the Oracle vs. Google case . SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:33) Bradley mentioned the BPM for the human heart is to the Bee Gee's song, S...
Karen gives an update on the advocacy of software freedom for medical devices, while Bradley continually takes the show off-topic. SHOW NOTES: Bradley mentioned Jimmy Fallon's … And We...
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Richard Fontana 's LinuxCon North America 2012 talk , The Tragedy of the Commons Gatekeepers. SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:33) Bradley and Karen introduce...
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Matthew Garrett 's talk, Linux in a UEFI Secure Boot World talk from LinuxCon North America 2012 . SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:34) Bradley mentioned th...
Karen and Bradley interview Christopher Allan Webber of the GNU Mediagoblin project. SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:31) Karen and Bradley introduce the interview. SEGMENT 0 (00:56) Kare...
Karen and Bradley discuss recent coverage of GNOME by the technology press, and more generally issues and concerns with the technology press. SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:44) Bradley could...
Karen and Bradley discuss OSCON and GUADEC . SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:36) Bradley represents FSF on the GNOME Advisory Board . (02:20) Bradley points out it's very dangerous when you ...
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Mike Linksvayer 's FOSDEM 2012 talk, Creative Commons 4.0 licenses and other opportunities for FLOSS/free culture legal/policy intersections from the FOSD...
Karen and Bradley discuss FSF's announcement of FSF's white paper on Restricted Boot , which critiques Red Hat's approach to restricted boot for its Fedora distribution and Canonical, Ltd....
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Philippe Laurent 's FOSDEM 2012 talk, Open Licences before European Courts from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom . SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0...
Karen and Bradley interview Deb Nicholson of Open Invention Network , GNU MediaGoblin and Open Hatch . SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:36) Karen announced her pregnancy . (01:50) Bradley wi...
Karen and Bradley discuss Software Freedom Conservancy 's announcement regarding its coordinated license compliance program . SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:36) Karen and Bradley discuss Soft...
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Richard Fontana's Linux Collaboration Summit 2012 talk, The Decline of the GPL, and What To Do About It . SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:36) Karen mentioned...
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Loïc Dachary 's FOSDEM 2012 talk, Can for-profit companies enforce copyleft without becoming corrupt like MySQL AB? from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy...
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Allison Randal 's FOSDEM 2012 talk, FLOSSing for Good Legal Hygiene: Stories from the Trenches from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom . SH...
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Michael Meeks 's FOSDEM 2012 talk, Risks and Benefits of Copyright Assignment from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom . SHOW NOTES: SEGMEN...
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Panel on Patents , moderated by Karen Sandler , with Ciarán O'Riordan , Benjamin Henrion , and Deb Nicholson from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues...
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Panel on Application Stores , moderated by Richard Fontana , with Giovanni Battista Gallus , Bradley M. Kuhn , and Hugo Roy from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and...
Karen and Bradley play and discuss John Sullivan 's talk entitled Is Copyleft Being Framed? from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom . SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:34) Dave Ne...
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Ambjörn Elder 's talk entitled Methods of FOSS Activism from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom . SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:35) Bradley ...
Bradley and Karen discuss Jacob Appelbaum's talk at Linux Conf Australia 2012, as well as other conference talks. SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:35) Bradley spoke at SCALE, but the talk was ...
Bradley and Karen discuss issues of gender inequality in the software freedom community and technology generally. SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:38) Bradley and Karen discuss issues of gende...
Karen and Bradley discuss the various private Free Software legal fora and consider if a more open community for discussion might be better, and also discuss the just-ended CFP for the FOSDE...
Karen and Bradley discuss recent debates about the value of non-profit organizations for Free Software. SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:34) Fontana (and other Red Hat employees) pointed out s...
Karen interviews Stefano Zacchiroli, who is the current Debian Project Leader. Karen and Bradley discuss their thoughts on that interview. SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:36) Karen interview...
Karen interviews Adam Dingle of Yorba, and Bradley and Karen briefly discuss the interview. SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:33) The interview is with Adam Dingle of Yorba . (02:30) SEGMENT...
Bradley and Karen discuss their jobs, particularly fundraising, and plans for future shows. SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:36) The Google Summer of Code Program is large philanthropic progr...
Bradley and Karen discuss the various news and comments on Steve Jobs' death and his legacy, and their own thoughts on the issue. SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:36) Bradley still hasn't made...
Karen and Bradley discuss the GNOME 3.2 release, Karen interviews Jos Poortvliet, Bradley complains about identi.ca web interface and they discuss together UEFI “secure” boot, and the Py...
Bradley and Karen play a speech recording of Bradley's presentation at OSCON 2011, entitled 12 Years of FLOSS License Compliance: A Historical Perspective. SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:36) ...
Bradley and Karen play a speech recording of Richard Fontana's presentation at OSCON 2011, entitled Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful. Note: this show and the slides from Richard F...
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. SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:33) ...
Karen and Bradley discuss Karen's OSCON keynote and her 2011 O'Reilly Open Source Award, as well as other happenings from OSCON. SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:35) Bradley and Karen just ret...
Karen and Bradley briefly discuss and play Bradley's keynote at the Sixth Annual OpenFOAM Conference . SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:38) Bradley spoke at the Sixth Annual OpenFOAM workshop ...
Karen and Bradley discuss the USAmerican legal system in regard to torts, and the current delays from the USA IRS on 501(c)(3) non-profit applications (i.e., Form 1023s). SHOW NOTES: SEGM...
Karen announces her new job, and Bradley and Karen discuss the recent USA Supreme Court decisions on patents. Be sure to make sure you're subscribed to feeds available on faif.us if you h...
Dan Lynch (filling in for Karen) and Bradley discuss a few examples where licensing decisions by companies impacts the health of the software development community. SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT ...
Dan Lynch (filling in for Karen) and Bradley play and discuss Matthew Garrett's talk GPL Violations: What Are We Doing? (aka Linux License Violations) from the Linux Collaboration Summit 201...
This episode is a recording of Jeremy Allison 's talk, Why Samba Switched to GPLv3 from the 2011 Linux Collaboration Summit , with some commentary from Bradley and Karen on the talk. SHOW ...
This episode is a recording of Richard Fontana 's talk, Open Source Projects and Corporate Entanglement from the 2011 Linux Collaboration Summit , with some commentary from Bradley and Karen...
This episode is a recording of Karen's talk, Sign on the Dotted Line: NDAs and Free and Open Source Software from the 2011 Linux Collaboration Summit . SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 1 (01:33) You ...
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. SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 1 (03:1...
Bradley and Karen have an introductory discussion on how non-profit governance interacts with Free Software projects and what issues are important for developers who want their project to ...
Bradley and Karen discussed the Windows Phone 7 Application Store terms and conditions which prohibit GPL'd and other copylefted software in the application store. SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0...
Bradley and Karen discuss types of copyleft generally and introduce the basics of license compatibility and -or-later clauses. SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:38) This show discusses copyle...
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 pic...
Bradley and Karen discuss a few corrections from previous shows, and then discuss misunderstandings about the GPL regarding “revocation” of the GPL. SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:34) ...
Bradley and Karen discuss the inclusion of ZFS GPLv2-or-later code inclusion into GNU GRUB . SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:35) Bradley and Karen discussed the inclusion of ZFS code now...
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 br...
In this episode of Free as in Freedom , Karen and Bradley discuss in the first segment recent press coverage of sexist attitudes at Free Software conferences, and in the second segment, di...
Karen and Bradley discuss the debates regarding Apple's online store restrictions that make it impossible to distribute GPL'd software via Apple's store. Then, they discuss question the usef...
Karen and Bradley discuss Stormy Peters' departure from the GNOME Foundation, an issue of deep confusion regarding copyright licensing, and references to Spock in a recent court decision. ...
Bradley and Karen discuss the new license of their show, multi-platform Free Software projects and conferences Bradley attended this month. SHOW NOTES: SEGMENT 0 (00:32) All recordings...
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 will not be affiliated with any specific organ...