Episode 0x1D: Stefano Zacchiroli, Current DPL

<p> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x1D_Zack-DPL.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_0x1D_Zack-DPL.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 interviews Stefano Zacchiroli, who is the current Debian Project Leader. Karen and Bradley discuss their thoughts on that interview.</p> </p> <h3>Show Notes:</h3> <h4>Segment 0 (00:36) </h4> <ul> <li>Karen interviewed <a href="http://upsilon.cc/~zack/">Stefano Zacchiroli</a>, who is the current <a href="http://www.debian.org/devel/leader">Debian Project Leader</a>. (02:59)</li> </ul> <h4>Segment 1 (03:58)</h4> <ul> <li>Stefano was inspired by a professor at his university to get involved with Free Software, because you can study the sources. (04:50)</li> <li>DPL reelection is in April each year. (08:40)</li> <li>Stefano discovered that some Debian derivatives weren't distributing source packages. He's helped them get into compliance, although Stefano hesitates to call it enforcement. (12:40)</li> <li>Stefano mentioned that many Debian contributors begin contributing upstream to Debian after contributing to derivatives of Debian first. (15:20)</li> <li>Stefano thinks the adoption of Free Software on the desktop is shrinking, and many users are using proprietary software &ldquo;cloud&rdquo; services. (19:00)</li> <li>Stefano thinks that GPL is not enough to defend our software freedom, and that AGPL can do it but it came a bit late. (20:20)</li> <li>Stefano is concerned about companies like Google that can reimplement an entire software system merely to avoid copyleft. (20:40)</li> </ul> <h4>Segment 2 (21:04)</h4> <ul> <li>Bradley mentioned that moving a package to non-free is a powerful tool that Debian has to deal with licensing situations (21:40)</li> <li>Bradley noted that the Debian ftpmasters make decisions about licensing, but it has not been historically well documented. <a href="http://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/">It seems that fact is now well documented</a>. (27:30)</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>