The Software Freedom Law Show

Episode 0x15: Steve Holden of the Python Software Foundation

1 September 2009

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Summary

Karen and Bradley interview Steve Holden of the Python Software Foundation.

This show was released on Tuesday 1 September 2009; its running time is 00:36:03.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:29)

• Law school is three years in the USA. (02:30)
• Karen avoided being quizzed on Dynamic vs. lexical scoping. (06:00)

Segment 1 (06:28)

Steve has been using Python since version 1.5, which was released in 1998. (08:15)

Steve was previously the chairman of Sun UK User Group, and was also involved with DECUS. (10:40)

PSF funds various smaller conferences around the world. (12:30)

PSF's Board is all volunteer. (13:22)

The book that Karen and Steve kept referencing is Fiscal Sponsorship: 6 Ways to Do It Right by Gregory L.Colvin. (17:10)

Steve discussed that the Python License is a permissive Free Software license. (19:20)

Steve discussed Python contributor agreement. (21:43)

Python is trademarked by the Python Software Foundation in the USA. (22:39)

Bradley and Steve discussed the scope of trademarks. No worries about pet stores, they can still sell pythons even though Python is trademarked. (25:30)

Bradley and Steve also mentioned Twisted which is written in Python and is a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy. (26:00)

Video is available from PyCon. (27:20)

Steve mentioned the Parrot Project, which is run by Allison Randal. (31:09)

Segment 2 (32:38)

• Bradley mentioned that he's contributed to Pynie, Python on Parrot. (33:20)



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