0x51: Why Licenses Requiring Use of Trademarks are Non-Free

<p> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x51_Trademark-Required.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_0x51_Trademark-Required.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 and discuss <a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/speaker/pamela_chestek/">Pam Chestek</a>'s talk entitled <a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/trademark_licenses/"><cite>Why Licenses Requiring Use of Trademarks are Non-Free</cite></a> that she gave on Sunday 2 February 2014 at <a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2014">FOSDEM 2014</a>.</p> </p> <h3>Show Notes:</h3> <h4>Segment 0 (00:00:34)</h4> <ul> <li>You can <a href="http://faif.us/">donate now to send Producer Dan Lynch to a Free Software conference</a>. Donations will be made to Conservancy and any proceeds raised beyond the amount needed to send Dan to a conference will support Conservancy generally. (05:30)</li> <li>Dan will of course need to follow <a href="https://gitorious.org/conservancy/policies/source/master:Travel/conservancy-travel-policy.txt">Conservancy's travel policy</a> since Conservancy will fund his travel. (06:50)</li> <li>Bradley discussed the backstory on the <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2014/11/11/groupon.html">Groupon attempt to steal GNOME's name</a>. GNOME Foundation <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141111131348/https://www.gnome.org/groupon/">had to go public to raise funds to fight Groupon</a> (10:05)</li> </ul> <h4>Segment 1 (00:13:26)</h4> <p><a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/speaker/pamela_chestek/">Pam Chestek</a> gives a talk entitled <a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/trademark_licenses/"><cite>Why Licenses Requiring Use of Trademarks are Non-Free</cite></a>. You can <a href="http://video.fosdem.org/2014/H2213/Sunday/Why_Licenses_Requiring_Use_of_Trademarks_are_NonFree.webm">watch the video instead of listening to our audio</a> and <a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/trademark_licenses/attachments/slides/470/export/events/attachments/trademark_licenses/slides/470/FOSDEM_2014_preso.pdf">follow along with Pam's slides</a>.</p> <h4>Segment 2 (01:00:37)</h4> <ul> <li>Bradley mentioned <a href="http://faif.us/cast/2013/may/07/0x3C/">Pam's talk from the previous year, which was played on 0x3C</a>. (01:01:32)</li> <li> Bradley mentioned that <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html#section7">GPLv3&sect;7</a> allows for removal of additional restrictions that abuse that clause of GPLv3. (01:04:24)</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>