0x67: Analysis of Two Backports of GPLv3 Termination Provisions to GPLv2

<p> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x67_Termination-Backports.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_0x67_Termination-Backports.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 discuss two additional permissions that can be used to &ldquo;backport&rdquo; the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html#section8">GPLv3 Termination provisions</a> to <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html">GPLv2</a> &mdash; the Kernel Enforcement Statement Additional Permission, and the Red Hat Cooperation Commitment. A <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/may/11/termination-backports/">blog post on Conservancy's site summarizes the discussion on this show</a>.</p> </p> <h3>Show Notes:</h3> <h4>Segment 0 (00:35)</h4> <ul> <li>Bradley mentioned <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irregardless">irregardless is not actually a word, but it does appear to be slang</a>, which dates back to 1795! (03:23)</li> <li><a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html#section7">The additional permission system was codified as a formal part of GPLv3</a>, but are generally more informal under GPLv2. (05:24)</li> <li>Karen explained what the <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/principles.html">Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement</a>. (07:49)</li> <li>Karen mentioned that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalek">Daleks</a> <q>terminate!</q> (08:51)</li> </ul> <h4>Segment 1 (13:04)</h4> <ul> <li>Bradley mentioned the <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2014/jun/09/do-not-need-cla/">inbound=outbound FOSS licensing contributor assent system</a> (18:15)</li> </ul> <h4>Segment 2 (26:10)</h4> <ul> <li>Karen and Bradley discuss the term &ldquo;non-defensive&rdquo; and what it means.</li> <li>Bradley mentioned the <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/516735/">Twin Peaks lawsuit</a> as a non-hypothetical case where the RHCC would not apply where GPL enforcement was used by Red Hat itself as a retaliation tactic. (29:23)</li> <li>The <a href="https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.15/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.html">Kernel Enforcement Statement</a> and the <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gplcc/gplcc/master/Project/COMMITMENT">RHCC</a> are available online.</li> </ul> <h4>Segment 3 (38:40)</h4> <p>The next episode of will be an interview with Molly De Blanc and recording of her keynote at CopyleftConf 2019</p> <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>