0x50: Big Announcements & Evans' FOSDEM 2014 Talk

<p> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x50_Announcements-and-Evans.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_0x50_Announcements-and-Evans.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>Karen and Bradley <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/news/2014/oct/31/dmca-petition/">announce Conservancy's DMCA filing</a> and <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/news/2014/nov/07/copyleft-org/">Conservancy and FSF's joint launch of the copyleft.org project</a>, and then discuss <a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/speaker/eileen_evans/">Eileen Evans</a>' FOSDEM 2014 <a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/licensing_models/">talk, entitled <cite>Licensing Models and Building an Open Source Community</cite></a>.</p> </p> <h3>Show Notes:</h3> <h4>Segment 0 (00:36)</h4> <ul> <li>Conservancy <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/news/2014/oct/31/dmca-petition/">file a DMCA petition regarding so-called &ldquo;Smart TVs&rdquo;</a>. (02:00)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned the <a href="http://archive.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2002/05/52665">magic marker that was as circumvention technique under DMCA</a>. Here's an <a href="http://robertwrose.com/riaa.html">amusing joke press release about the issue</a>. (03:10)</li> <li>There isn't much documentation online of <a href="http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=805640">Bruce Perens live DMCA violation</a>, but <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20030119062916/http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/07/23/020723hnperens.xml">this article appears to be the main one on the subject</a>, and there is <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/features/oreilly2001/BrucePerensInterview.php3">also this interview</a> (06:46).</li> <li>Bradley and Karen <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2014/nov/07/copyleft-org/">talked about the joint FSF/Conservancy copyleft.org announcement</a>. (09:10)</li> <li>Bradley first pulled together the materials for copyleft.org <a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/sign-up-for-the-fsfs-next-seminar-on-gpl-enforcement-and-legal-ethics">for FSF's CLE seminars, particularly the one in March 2014</a>. (10:00)</li> <li>Karen noted that Conservancy donated the time to write up a <a href="http://compliance.guide/pristine">pristine example of good complete, corresponding source code for a GPL'd product</a>. (11:30)</a></li> <li><a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2011/03/11/linux-red-hat-gpl.html">Bradley discussed the incorrect GPLv2&sect;2(a) violation accusations that some made against Red Hat regarding its changes to its publication of RHEL's Linux fork</a>. (12:00)</a> <li>Karen and Bradley encouraged listeners to <a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2014-October/002036.html">submit talk proposals for the FOSDEM 2015 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom</a> (15:03)</li> </ul> <h4>Segment 1 (19:38)</h4> <p>This is a recording of <a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/speaker/eileen_evans/">Eileen Evans</a>' FOSDEM 2014 <a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/licensing_models/">talk, entitled <cite>Licensing Models and Building an Open Source Community</cite></a>. If you'd rather <a href="http://video.fosdem.org/2014/H2213/Sunday/Licensing_Models_and_Building_an_Open_Source_Community.webm">watch the video, which includes the slides from her talk, it's available on FOSDEM's site</a>.</p> <h4>Segment 2 (46:40)</h4> <ul> <li>Bradley and Karen discuss Eileen's talk.</li> <li>Bradley mentioned the OpenStack CLA fight, which was <a href="http://faif.us/cast/2014/aug/05/0x4B/">covered in a panel discussion on FaiF 0x4B</a>. (56:16)</li> <li>Karen mentioned the 501(c)(6) issues that OpenStack Foundation has faced, which were <a href="http://faif.us/cast/2014/sep/23/0x4E/">discussed already on FaiF 0x4E</a>. (56:34)</li> </ul> <hr width="80%"/> <p>Send feedback and comments on the cast to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">&lt;[email protected]&gt;</a>. 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