Episode 0x06: GRUB, Zulu Foxtrot Sierra

<p> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x06_GRUB-Zulu-Foxtrot-Sierra.ogg"><img alt="[Direct download of cast in Ogg/Vorbis format]" src="https://faif.us/static/img/cast/audio_ogg_button.png"/></a> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x06_GRUB-Zulu-Foxtrot-Sierra.mp3"><img alt="[Direct download of cast in MP3 format]" src="https://faif.us/static/img/cast/audio_mp3_button.png"/></a> </p> <p> <p><a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/">Bradley</a> and <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/about/team/#karen">Karen</a> discuss <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/418399/">the inclusion</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS">ZFS</a> GPLv2-or-later code inclusion into <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/">GNU GRUB</a>.</p> </p> <h3>Show Notes:</h3> <h4>Segment 0 (00:35)</h4> <ul> <li>Bradley and Karen discussed the inclusion of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS">ZFS</a> code now included in <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/">GRUB</a>, as the <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/418399/">GRUB Project announced</a> and <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/418869/">was covered at LWN by Jonathan Corbet</a>.</li> <li>It's not mandatory that GNU projects have assignment to the FSF. <a href="http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Legal-Matters.html">The GNU Maintainer's guide discuss the requirements when items are assigned to FSF</a>. (14:40)</li> <li>FSF requires that the entire codebase be assigned once GNU project maintainers choose to assign copyrights. Conservancy's policy on copyright assignment differs here; Conservancy will accept partial copyright assignment. (16:07)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned the <a href="http://cobolforgcc.sourceforge.net/">COBOL front end to GCC</a> that is not in the main GCC codebase because it is not copyright assigned to FSF. (17:40)</li> <li>Bradley and Karen discussed the <a href="http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/news/2010-February/000215.html">Squeak relicensing last call</a>. (25:49)</li> <li>Bradley <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/419062/">posted a comment to Corbet's article</a>. (32:30)</li> </ul> <h4>Final (45:45)</h4> <ul> <li>The calendar Bradley was thinking of was the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar">International Fixed Calendar</a>, which Wikipedia confirms, with a sourced link, was used by the Eastman Kodak Company from 1928 to 1989.</li> </ul> <hr width="80%"/> <p>Send feedback and comments on the cast to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">&lt;[email protected]&gt;</a>. You can keep in touch with <a href="https://faif.us">Free as in Freedom</a> on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by <a href="http://identi.ca/conservancy">following Conservancy on identi.ca</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/conservancy">and Twitter</a>.</p> <p>Free as in Freedom is produced by <a href="http://danlynch.org/blog/">Dan Lynch</a> of <a href="http://danlynch.org/">danlynch.org</a>. Theme music written and performed by <a href="http://www.miketarantino.com">Mike Tarantino</a> with <a href="http://www.charliepaxson.com">Charlie Paxson</a> on drums.</p> <p><a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/88x31.png" hspace=10 /></a> The content of <span xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound" rel="dc:type">this audcast</span>, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0)</a>. </p>