0x5F: Was 2018 the Year of Non-FOSS Licensing?

<p> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x5F_non-FOSS.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_0x5F_non-FOSS.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 return, as promised, in 2018 (just barely)! They discuss the many non-FOSS and otherwise software-freedom-unfriendly licenses that have been promulgated in 2018.</p> </p> <h3>Show Notes:</h3> <h4>Segment 0 (00:36)</h4> <p>Bradley and Karen discuss ideas for what to do with the oggcast going forward.</p> <h4>Segment 2 (07:49)</h4> <ul> <li> Bradley mentioned the field of endeavor restriction in <a href=:"https://opensource.org/osd-annotated">Open Source Defintion</a>. (09:20)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned how badly Amazon treats its workers who pack boxes, which was <a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/12/22/679546929/working-the-holidays-as-an-amazon-worker">widely reported this month</a> (10:22).</li> <li>Bradley referenced that someone changed attempted to change a license on a project to prohibit use by USA border protection agents. This was the Lerna project, and <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/aug/30/big-tent/">Bradley wrote a blog post about it earlier this year</a>. (12:14)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned the controversy about the new MongoDB license, the SS Public License, which <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/oct/16/mongodb-copyleft-drafting/">Bradley also wrote a blog post about earlier this year</a> (14:09)</li> <li> karen reports that many people at the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://sustainoss.org/">Sustain OSS Conference</a> were surprised that sustaining the idelogy of software freedom was something that people value. (27:10)</li> <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>