Episode 0x37: Copyright Assignment Again

<p> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x37_Copyright-Assignment.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_0x37_Copyright-Assignment.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 the <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/529522/">LWN article, <cite>GnuTLS, copyright assignment, and GNU project governance</cite></a> and other issues related to copyright assignment.</p> </p> <h3>Show Notes:</h3> <h4>Segment 0 (00:46)</h4> <ul> <li>Bradley didn't want his words compared to the Ayn Rand's quote from an interview with Phil Donahue where she said <q>I'm not going to die, it's just that world will end</q>. (02:54)</li> <li> Bradley discussed the reaction to <a href="http://faif.us/cast/2012/dec/18/0x36/">on 0x36</a> that <a href="http://identi.ca/conversation/97615575">occurred in this identi.ca thread</a>. (04:20)</li> <li>Bradley and Karen discussed the <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/529522/">LWN article, <cite>GnuTLS, copyright assignment, and GNU project governance</cite></a>. (11:15)</li> <li>Bradley pointed out that every other copyleft license allows for relicensing under newer versions automatically (i.e., they have an automatic -or-later ), and Karen asked whether <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Development_and_Distribution_License">Sun's CDDL does</a>. Bradley checked later, Karen was correct that <a href="http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/download/Main/licensing/cddllicense.txt">CDDL's later version clause (Section 4)</a> is similar to the GPL policy. (23:00) However, Fontana wrote to us on IRC to say <q>CDDL's license upgradeability clause is not entirely like GPL's. The GPL states that if no version number is specified, any version can be used. CDDL does not say this; it seems to assume that it will always be clear what version CDDL code will be distributed under, whereas GPL seems to assume otherwise.</q></li> <li>Bradley mentioned the <a href="http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Defence-of-the-GPL-realm-1769121.html">interview he did with <cite>The H Online</cite> on GPL enforcement</a>. (41:57)</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>