2011-05-24

An oggcast from the Software Freedom Law Center.




Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:34)

FaiF Producer Dan Lynch is filling in for Karen
as co-host this week. (00:43)

Karen got married on the day
Dan and Bradley recorded the oggcast. (01:03)

Dan is also known as the co-host of Linux Outlaws, host of Rat Hole Radio, and occasional co-host of
FLOSS Weekly. (02:05)

Bradley mentioned Dick
Van Dyke's admission (06:56)

Segment 1 (08:05)

This segment is Matthew Garrett's talk GPL Violations: What Are We Doing? (aka Linux License
Violations) from the Linux Collaboration Summit 2011.

Matthew Garrett released the slides
from his talk which you can follow along with during the talk.

Segment 2 (51:29)

Bradley mentioned that Matthew is particularly interested in the GPL violations
on Android/Linux devices that he's found. (52:57)

Bradley mentioned Greg
Kroah-Hartman's GPL enforcement against Microsoft, which Bradley
also blogged
about a few years ago. (55:51)

Dan asked Bradley about DMCA usage in GPL enforcement. Bradley
explained that there is a process called DMCA
takedown that Matthew was discussing. (57:30)

Dan and Bradley discussed the Linux
Foundation Open Compliance Program. (1:05:05)

Bradley mentions that he is completely opposed to criminal
penalties for copyright infringement, and mentioned his ACTA commenting
blog post. (1:12:13)

Bradley and Dan discussed the Sony DVD rootkit. (1:15:17)

Karen's
wedding
invitation
got
some
press
since
it
was a
working
record
player.
(1:16:58)

Karen and Mike's wedding song is at the end of the oggcast, but you
can also download the
song from the wedding
website. (1:21:08)

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The Software Freedom Law Show was produced by Dan Lynch
of half baked media.
Theme
music written and performed
by Mike Tarantino
with Charlie Paxson on drums.

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of The Software
Freedom Law Show and the accompanying show notes are
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Karen and Bradley continue to record Free as in Freedom at faif.us.

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