Karen and Bradley discuss Stormy Peters' departure from the GNOME
Foundation, an issue of deep confusion regarding copyright licensing,
and references to Spock in a recent court decision.


Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:35)

Bradley confirmed the entire show is licensed CC-By-SA 3.0.
(02:30)

Stormy
Peters is leaving the position of GNOME Foundation's Executive
Director. (04:10)

The GNOME Advisory
Board is a group of for-profit and non-profit organizations that
meet regularly to give advice to GNOME Foundation. (04:34)

Stormy is going to a job at the Mozilla Foundation. (09:10)

You don't have to be a developer to become a member of the GNOME
Foundation. (09:57)

Bradley mentioned that he did an FSF booth at COMDEX Chicago in early 2001
(which Bradley incorrectly called CES Chicago in the
recording). (12:20)


Segment 1 (15:43)



A LiveJournal
post introduced an interesting issue of copyright confusion.
(16:30)

Karen mentioned there was discussion in other fora other than the
original LiveJournal post, such as on the NY Frunch (Free Culture
Lunch) mailing
list and, since then, on
NPR. (17:24)

Bradley mentioned Fanzines, wondering if
there are still fanzines. (18:57)

Karen pointed out that both copyright infringement and plagiarism
were at issue here. (20:25)

Bradley is quite upset about the idea that people confuse public
domain with FaiF licensing or any other actual license
terms. (21:00)

Karen notes that if you don't see a license, you have to assume
it's all rights reserved. (23:10)

Bradley described a Slashdot
story that linked to a Techdirt
article. (30:29)

A footnote
in the concurrence is what mentions Star Trek
(33:03) .

Bradley mentioned a mediocre novel he read in the 1990s called Brain
Storm by Richard Dooling. (33:26)






Send feedback and comments on the cast
to <[email protected]>.
You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and
by following Conservancy on
identi.ca and and Twitter.

Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch
of danlynch.org.
Theme
music written and performed
by Mike Tarantino
with Charlie Paxson on drums.


The content
of this
audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed
under the Creative
Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Ver todos los episodios