0x5C: Basic FLOSS Concepts: Licensing 101

<p> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x5C_Licensing-101.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_0x5C_Licensing-101.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 give a basic introduction of copyright licensing of Open Source and Free Software.</p> </p> <h3>Show Notes:</h3> <h4>Segment 0 (00:35)</h4> <ul> <li>Bradley mentioned the phrase <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/fixed_in_a_tangible_medium_of_expression">&ldquo;fixed in a tangible medium&rdquo;</a> which appears in the USA copyright law. (03:10)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act">Sherman Antitrust act</a>. (04:05)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned the card game <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_%28game%29"><cite>Pit</cite></a> (04:15)</li> <li>Bradley jokingly quoted <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlPQkd_AA6c">Mit Romney's famous gaffe, &ldquo;Corporations are people, my friend.&rdquo; (04:44)</li> <li>Bradley read <a href="http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html">Title 17, the USA Copyright act</a> many times. (06:50)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned the court case, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_Inc._v._Berkeley_Software_Design,_Inc.">UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. v. Berkeley Software Design, Inc.</a>, which resulted in releasing the parts of BSD that could be Free Software. (12:27)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html">FSF's Free Software Definition</a> (13:11)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned <a href="https://opensource.org/osd-annotated">OSI's Open Source Definition (13:16)</li> <li>Apparently, the problem of categorization is called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorization">Categorization</a> in Philosophy. (14:30)</li> <li>The issue of Open Source not being trademarked is discussed in <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.en.html">this essay by Richard Stallman</a>. (15:44)</li> <li>The basic categorizations of types of FLOSS licenses are <a href="https://copyleft.org/">copyleft</a> and non-copyleft.</li> <li>Karen suggests reading GPLv2 and GPLv3. (39:31)</li> <li>Bradley made a <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/talks/OSCON-EU-2015/license-spectrum.svg">crude drawing of the spectrum of licenses</a>. (40:20)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned the <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/principles.html">The Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement</a> (55:40)</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>