Episode 0x0C: Disturbing Debates

<p> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x0C_Disturbing-Debates.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_0x0C_Disturbing-Debates.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><a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/">Bradley</a> and <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/about/team/#karen">Karen</a> discuss two debates going on in the free and open source software community. One recent and seemingly inflated, and one long and confusing.</p> </p> <h3>Show Notes:</h3> <h4>Segment 1 (03:12)</h4> <ul> <li>Bradley wrote a <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2011/03/18/bionic-debate.html">blog post about the Bionic issues that were raised</a>. (03:44)</li> <li>On the old oggcast, <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/podcast/2010/jan/19/0x1F/">Karen and Bradley discussed the Android/Linux system and Bionic specifically</a>. (04:09)</li> <li>Karen mentioned an <a href="http://softwarefreedom.org/podcast/2009/mar/03/0x08/">old oggcast where permissive vs. copyleft licensing was discussed</a>. (06:19)</li> <li>Jake Edge wrote <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/434318/">an LWN article that discussed Bionic</a> (07:58)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ipinfoblog.com/archives/licensing-law-issues-infringement-and-disclosure-risk-in-development-on-copyleft-platforms.html">Raymond Nimmer's blog that started the debate</a> (10:52)</li> <li>Bradley also mentioned <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/edward-j-naughton/googles-android-contains-_b_836697.html">Edward Naughton's blog post</a> and <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.brownrudnick.com/nr/pdf/alerts/Brown%20Rudnick%20Advisory%20The%20Bionic%20Library-Did%20Google%20Work%20Around%20The%20GPL.pdf">paper on Bionic</a>. (11:38)</li> <li>Raymond Nimmer is not <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nimmer">David Nimmer</a>, who is known for writings on copyright (18:10)</li> <li>There is now an <a href="http://identi.ca/group/disturbing">disturbing group</a> on identica, which is more disturbing than a <a href="http://identi.ca/tag/disturbing">tag about disturbing</a>. (19:15)</li> <li><a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/lawyer-behind-android-infringement-claim-has-?source=nww_rss">Joe Brockmeier did some research on Edward Naughton's ties to Microsoft</a>. (20:05)</li> <li>Karen mentioned <a href="http://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/ath5k-code-analysis.html">a paper on deep legal analysis of header files</a> and <a href="http://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/originality-requirements.html">on originality requirements in copyright</a> (24:40)</li> </ul> <h4>Segment 2 (26:07)</h4> <ul> <li>Karen wanted to clear up some confusion about the discussion last episode about the &ldquo;Open Source&rdquo; and &ldquo;Free Software&rdquo; terminology.</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>