0x44: Oracle v. Google Federal Appeals Court Decision

<p> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x44_Oracle-v-Google-Appeal.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_0x44_Oracle-v-Google-Appeal.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 explain why they've been gone for so long, and then discuss the <a href="http://faif.us/cast-media/2014-05-07_Oracle-vs-Google_13-1021.pdf">recent Oracle v. Google Federal Appeals Court Decision</a>.</p> </p> <h3>Show Notes:</h3> <h4>Segment 0 (00:00:31)</h4> <ul> <li><a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2014/mar/31/karen-joins/">Karen is now Executive Director of Conservancy and Bradley is President and Distinguished Technologist</a>. (03:01)</li> <li>Bradley will be working extensively on the <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/campaign/">NPO Accounting Project</a>. (03:40)</li> </ul> <h4>Segment 1 (00:09:37)</h4> <ul> <li>Karen says <a href="http://faif.us/cast-media/2014-05-07_Oracle-vs-Google_13-1021.pdf">the Oracle v. Google Federal Appeals Court Decision is not an engaging read</a>, but the <a href="http://faif.us/cast-media/2012-05-31_Oracle-vs-Google_3-10-cv-03561-WHA_Document-1202.pdf">lower court decision was</a>. (09:50)</li> <li>Karen said: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks072waMayk">You're out of your element, <em>Donny</em>!</a> (12:38)</li> <li>Karen mentioned a <a href="https://twitter.com/xor/status/464807708437528577">tweet from the EFF</a> (15:23)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned his <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2012/12/09/oracle-v-google.html">older blog post about the previous decision</a> (16:48)</li> <li>Karen incorrectly said we never recorded a show on the previous decision, but <a href="http://faif.us/cast/2012/dec/05/0x35/">we did indeed discuss the previous Oracle v. Google decision in , which Bradley and Karen discussed in Episode 0x35</a> (18:53)</li> <li>Karen and Bradley explained what an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_defense">affirmative defense</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_in_the_alternative">arguments in the alternative</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merger_doctrine_%28copyright_law%29">merger doctrine</a>. (21:03)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned the <a href="https://www.openoffice.org/why/why_compliance.html">Apache Software Foundation is now publicly more against copyleft software than proprietary software</a>, and that such position is unreasonable, unlike the OpenBSD position that copyleft and proprietary software are equally bad: a position Bradley disagrees with but agrees is consistent, reasonable moral stance. (38:40)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned his discussions with <a href="https://gnu.wildebeest.org/blog/mjw/">Mark J. Wielaard</a> of the Classpath project</a> (52:20)</li> <li>Bradley and Karen ask people to <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/donate/">doante to Conservancy</a>.</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>