Karen interviews Stefano Zacchiroli, who is the current Debian
Project Leader. Karen and Bradley discuss their thoughts on that
interview.


Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:36)



Karen interviewed Stefano
Zacchiroli, who is the current Debian Project Leader.
(02:59)



Segment 1 (03:58)



Stefano was inspired by a professor at his university to get
involved with Free Software, because you can study the
sources. (04:50)

DPL reelection is in April each year. (08:40)

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)

Stefano mentioned that many Debian contributors begin contributing
upstream to Debian after contributing to derivatives of Debian
first. (15:20)

Stefano thinks the adoption of Free Software on the desktop is
shrinking, and many users are using proprietary software
“cloud” services. (19:00)

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)

Stefano is concerned about companies like Google that can
reimplement an entire software system merely to avoid
copyleft. (20:40)



Segment 2 (21:04)



Bradley mentioned that moving a package to non-free is a powerful
tool that Debian has to deal with licensing situations (21:40)

Bradley noted that the Debian ftpmasters make decisions about
licensing, but it has not been historically well documented. It seems that fact is now
well documented. (27:30)





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