Listen "0x5F: Was 2018 the Year of Non-FOSS Licensing? "
Episode Synopsis
Bradley and Karen return, as promised, in 2018 (just barely)! They
discuss the many non-FOSS and otherwise software-freedom-unfriendly
licenses that have been promulgated in 2018.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:36)
Bradley and Karen discuss ideas for what to do with the oggcast going
forward.
Segment 2 (07:49)
Bradley mentioned the field of endeavor restriction in Open Source Defintion. (09:20)
Bradley mentioned how badly Amazon treats its workers who pack boxes,
which was widely
reported this month (10:22).
Bradley referenced that someone changed attempted to change a license
on a project to prohibit use by USA border protection agents. This was
the Lerna project, and Bradley wrote
a blog post about it earlier this year. (12:14)
Bradley mentioned the controversy about the new MongoDB license, the
SS Public License, which Bradley
also wrote a blog post about earlier this year (14:09)
karen reports that many people at the Sustain OSS Conference were surprised
that sustaining the idelogy of software freedom was something that people
value. (27:10)
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