Episode 0x02: The Needs of the Few

<p> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x02_Needs-of-the-Few.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_0x02_Needs-of-the-Few.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>Karen and Bradley discuss Stormy Peters' departure from the GNOME Foundation, an issue of deep confusion regarding copyright licensing, and references to Spock in a recent court decision.</p> </p> <h3>Show Notes:</h3> <h4>Segment 0 (00:35)</h4> <ul> <li>Bradley confirmed the entire show is licensed <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">CC-By-SA 3.0.</a> (02:30)</li> <li><a href="http://stormyscorner.com/2010/11/changing-roles.html">Stormy Peters is leaving the position of GNOME Foundation's Executive Director</a>. (04:10)</li> <li>The <a href="http://foundation.gnome.org/about/advisoryboard/">GNOME Advisory Board</a> is a group of for-profit and non-profit organizations that meet regularly to give advice to GNOME Foundation. (04:34)</li> <li>Stormy is going to a job at the Mozilla Foundation. (09:10)</li> <li>You don't have to be a developer to become a <a href="http://foundation.gnome.org/membership/">member of the GNOME Foundation</a>. (09:57)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned that he did an <a href="http://www.fsf.org">FSF</a> booth at COMDEX Chicago in early 2001 (which Bradley incorrectly called CES Chicago in the recording). (12:20)</li> </ul> <h4>Segment 1 (15:43)</h4> <ul> <li><a href="http://illadore.livejournal.com/30674.html">A LiveJournal post introduced an interesting issue of copyright confusion</a>. (16:30)</li> <li>Karen mentioned there was discussion in other fora other than the original LiveJournal post, such as on the NY Frunch (Free Culture Lunch) mailing list and, since then, <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=131168884">on NPR</a>. (17:24)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanzine">Fanzines</a>, wondering if there are still fanzines. (18:57)</li> <li>Karen pointed out that both copyright infringement and plagiarism were at issue here. (20:25)</li> <li>Bradley is quite upset about the idea that people confuse public domain with FaiF licensing or any other actual license terms. (21:00)</li> <li>Karen notes that if you don't see a license, you have to assume it's all rights reserved. (23:10)</li> <li>Bradley described a <a href="http://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/10/31/1955240/Texas-Supreme-Court-Cites-Mr-Spock?from=rss">Slashdot story</a> that linked to a <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101027/05183111607/texas-supreme-court-cites-the-wisdom-of-spock-on-star-trek.shtml">Techdirt article</a>. (30:29)</li> <li>A <a href="http://www.supreme.courts.state.tx.us/historical/2010/oct/060714c2.htm#_ftn21">footnote in the concurrence</a> is what mentions <cite>Star Trek</cite> (33:03) .</li> <li>Bradley mentioned a mediocre novel he read in the 1990s called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Brain-Storm-Novel-Richard-Dooling/dp/0312203993"><cite>Brain Storm</cite> by Richard Dooling</a>. (33:26)</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>