0x6A: Live Show from SeaGL 2019

<p> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x6A_Live-from-SeaGL.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_0x6A_Live-from-SeaGL.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>The first live podcast of <cite>Free as in Freedom</cite>, hosted at SeaGL 2019 in November 2019. Hear questions from the studio audience and answers from Bradley and Karen.</p> </p> <h3>Show Notes:</h3> <h4>Segment 0 (00:38)</h4> <p>Producer Dan speaks on mic to introduce that this is a live show.</p> <h4>Segment 1 (01:17)</h4> <ul> <li>This is a live show from <a href="https://osem.seagl.org/conferences/seagl2019/">SeaGL 2019</a>, a community-organized <acronym title="Free as in Price">FaiP</acronym> (02:15)</li> <li>Carol Smith from Microsoft asked about being a charity in the USA under recent tax changes regarding tax deduction and, and asked about <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/nov/25/match2019/">Conservancy's annual fundraiser</a> which had <a href="">completed by the time this show was released</a>. (04:53)</li> <li>Deb took a photo during the show (07:30)</li> <li>A questioner asked about the so-called &ldquo;ethical but-non-FOSS licenses&rdquo;. Bradley gave an answer that is supplemented well <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/oct/16/mongodb-copyleft-drafting/">by this blog post</a> (10:15) and Karen mentioned at <a href="https://2020.copyleftconf.org/schedule/presentation/17/">CopyleftConf 2020 there was a discussion about this</a>. (15:15) The follow up question was also related to these topics (15:44).</li> <li>Eric Hopper asked about how Conservancy decides when a project joins, and what factors Conservancy considers in projects joining (18:14)</li> <li>A written questioner asked how to handle schools requiring proprietary software as part of their coursework. (22:00)</li> <li>Michael Dexter asked about Karen's teaching at Columbia Law School. (27:25)</li> <li>A written questioner asked about <a href="https://github.com/copyleft-next/copyleft-next/blob/master/Drafts/copyleft-next#L110">copyleft-next's sunset clause</a>. (29:22) Karen mentioned <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft#History">&ldquo;Copyleft, All wrongs reversed&rdquo; as it appeared on n June 1976 on Tiny BASIC</a>, which inspired the term copyleft to mean what it does today. (30:45)</li> <li>Karen spoke about the issues of copyright and trademark regarding Disney, that is <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/dec/02/disney/">supplemented by this blog post</a>. (32:52)</li> <li>Carol Smith asked what Karen and Bradley thought were Conservancy's and/or FOSS' biggest achievements in the last decade. (35:20) Karen mentioned <a href="https://outreachy.org">Outreachy</a> was a major success. (37:08) </li> <li>A questioner asked about using the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CASE_Act">CASE Act</a> to help in GPL enforcement. Bradley discussed how it might ultimately introduce problems similar to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitration_clause">arbitration clauses</a>. (41:42) Since the podcast was recorded, the CASE Act has also passed the Senate, but does not seem to have been signed by the President. (47:30)</li> <li>Bradley noted that Mako Hill has pointed out that <a href="https://agaric.gitlab.io/raw-notes/notes/2019-03-24-notes-on-online-cooperation-and-loss-of-advantage-by-free-software-talk-by-benjamin-mako-hill/">FOSS has not been involved in lobbying enough</a>. (48:10)</li> <li>A questioner in the audience asked about the Mozilla Corporation structure would allow Mozilla to do lobbying for FOSS. (50:57) Karen explained the Mozilla corporate legal structure (51:35).</li> <li>A questioner in the audience asked about <a href="https://seagl.org/news/2019/09/30/keynote-benjamin-mako-hill.html">Mako Hill's keynote</a> and how individuals can help further the cause of software freedom. (54:53)</li> <li>Michael Dexter asked if software patents are still as much of a threat as they once were. (1:01:30)</li> <li>Carol asked about the supreme court hearing the Oracle v. Google case (1:09:04)</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>