Episode 0x18: 12 Years of Compliance: A Historical Perspective

<p> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x18_Compliance-Historical.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_0x18_Compliance-Historical.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>Bradley and Karen play a speech recording of Bradley's presentation at OSCON 2011, entitled <cite>12 Years of FLOSS License Compliance: A Historical Perspective</cite>.</p> </p> <h3>Show Notes:</h3> <h4>Segment 0 (00:36)</h4> <ul> <li>Bradley mentioned that time travel requires <a href="http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Time_Traveler%27s_Handbook_of_1001_Tense_Formations">special verb tenses</a> according to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams">Douglas Adams</a>' book, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Restaurant_at_the_End_of_the_Universe"><cite>The Restaurant at the End of the Universe</cite></a>. (01:48)</li> <li>Bradley gave a <a href="https://ohiolinux.org/node/67">keynote at Ohio Linux Fest 2011</a> (01:58)</li> </ul> <h4>Segment 1 (05:02)</h4> <ul> <li>This segment is a recording of Bradley's <a href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011/public/schedule/detail/18820">OSCON 2011 talk, entitled <cite>12 Years of Copyleft License Compliance: A Historical Perspective</cite></a>. The <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/talks/OSCON-2011/compliance.html">slides are available on Bradley's website</a> so you can follow along during the talk if you like.</li> <li>There is a <a href="http://identi.ca/conversation/77418848">live denting identi.ca thread from Bradley's talk</a>. (03:50)</li> <li><a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2011/07/29/emacs.html">Bradley wrote a blog post</a> about a minor GPL violation in the Emacs codebase. It has <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-07/msg01276.html">since been fixed</a>.</li> <li>RMS mentioned the NeXT/Objective C GPL violation in his essay, <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.html"><cite>Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism</cite></a>.</li> </ul> <h4>Segment 2 (52:35)</h4> <ul> <li>Bradley will be speaking at the <a href="http://gsoc-wiki.osuosl.org/index.php/2011">Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit 2011</a> and at <a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe">LinuxCon Europe 2011</a>. (55:05)</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>