Episode 0x17: Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful

<p> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x17_Contributor-Agreements-Considered-Harmful.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_0x17_Contributor-Agreements-Considered-Harmful.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 play a speech recording of Richard Fontana's presentation at OSCON 2011, entitled <cite>Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful</cite>.</p> <p>Note: this show and the slides from Richard Fontana are licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/">CC-By-SA-3.0 USA</a>. This will be the new license of the show for this and future episodes.</p> </p> <h3>Show Notes:</h3> <h4>Segment 0 (00:34)</h4> <ul> <li>This show is a recording of Richard Fontana's talk <a href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011/public/schedule/detail/19242"><cite>Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful</cite></a>. (03:13) </li> </ul> <h4>Segment 1 (03:34)</h4> <ul> <li>Richard Fontana has made his <a href="http://aleatoric.org/talks/oscon2011/">slides from his talk available on his website</a>.</li> <li><a href="http://identi.ca/conversation/77353233">Bradley live-dented Fontana's talk from OSCON</a>.</li> <li>Richard Fontana references <a href="http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/copyright-assignment.html">Michael Meeks' essay, <cite>Some thoughts on Copyright Assignment</cite></a> (29:55)</li> </ul> <h4>Segment 2 (45:17)</h4> <ul> <li>Bradley and Karen were on a <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/454391/">panel discussion on copyright assignment at Desktop Summit</a>. (45:33)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned that <a href="http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/290">Mark Shuttleworth's obsession with cadence</a> had a similar weird effect on a different debate. (58:30)</li> <li><a href="http://pubpat.org/">Karen has done some pro bono work for PubPat</a>, and also <a href="http://questioncopyright.org/">Question Copyright</a> (01:01:30)</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>