Listen "Episode 0x11: Corporate Licensing Decisions That Impact the Project's Community "
Episode Synopsis
Dan Lynch (filling in for Karen)
and Bradley discuss a few examples
where licensing decisions by companies impacts the health of the
software development community.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:00:36)
Dan interviewed the CentOS developers on FLOSS Weekly. (00:05:52)
Bradley has a blog
post that describes RHEL licensing model. His
previous blog post to that one, while mostly off-topic here, has a
few points of interest. (00:10:36)
Dan Lynch mentioned The Smoking Man
from the The X
Files television series. (00:17:22)
Bradley mentioned that Lennart Poettering is a
Red Hat employee working on systemd,
which is now in
Fedora, but not in RHEL yet (as far as we know). (00:18:53)
Bradley suggested that developers starting projects read Karsten
Wade's The Open
Source Way, and Karl Fogel's Producing Open Source Software:
How to Run a Successful Free Software Project, and Bradley's
blog post about
developing in public. (00:22:16)
Dan and Bradley briefly discussed copyright abolition. Dan
mentioned Stallman's
writing on the Pirate Party's copyright positions.
Segment 1 (00:32:30)
Bradley briefly discussed the
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