An oggcast from the Software Freedom Law Center.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:26)
Bradley mentioned that the FSF is the one of the oldest non-profit
organizations in the Free Software space. The FSF
was founded on 4 October 1985. (01:25)
Karen and Bradley mentioned the GPLv3
Process.
Segment 1 (03:42)
Both Bradley and Brett used to order CD's from Cheap Bytes in the 1990s, which Bradley was
amazed to learn is still in business today. (04:37)
Bradley and Brett used to run Fedora when it was still
called Red Hat. (04:47)
We believe Brett was referring to RMS' lecture at KTH
in Sweden on 30 October 1986, which inspired Brett to get involved
with Free Software. (05:03)
Brett and Bradley meet at the Cincinnati GNU/Linux Users'
Group. (06:45)
Brett mentioned David
“novalis” Turner who used to work at the FSF in the
position Brett now holds.
Brett mentioned the GPL Compliance Lab
at the FSF. (08:25)
Brett mentioned the Affero
GPL. (09:35)
Bradley mentioned his blog post about the “Eternal
September” of GPL compliance. (10:45)
Brett keeps a Compliance case
stats box on the FSF Licensing page. (11:36)
We spoke a few times about the GPL FAQ,
which includes info about other FSF-published licenses as well. (08:15,
12:30).
Brett mentioned RMS' essay
on why to upgrade to GPLv3. (14:35)
Brett's
Quick Guide to GPLv3 discusses some of the changes in GPLv3, including
ones discussed on the podcast. (16:00)
We discussed GPLv3's
anti-DRM provision for User Products, at the end of Section
6. (16:03)
We discussed GPLv3's
Termination Provision. (17:12)
We discussed GPLv3's
Additional Terms provisions, which allows for Apache license compatibility. (19:11)
Brett briefly mentioned GPLv3's
patent provisions. (21:41)
Brett mentioned the GNU Simplified Free
Documentation License, for which the drafting process is
ongoing. (23:18)
Brett mentioned the FSF's release of the FDL version
1.3. RMS has
written in detail about it since our recording took place. Bradley
also made a blog post about it. (23:37)
Brett and Bradley discussed how old and ground-breaking the FDL was.
FDL
was first released in March 2000. Bradley didn't have a chance to
tell his story as to why the first version was 1.1; maybe he will
sometime. :)
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