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Legal Basics for Developers

Free as in Freedom episode 0x16

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Bradley and Karen play and comment on a talk recording of Aaron Williamson's and Karen's presentation at OSCON 2011, entitled Legal Basics for Developers.

Running time: 00:53:53.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:33)

Segment 1 (05:53)

Segment 2 (49:36)

  • Richard Fontana gave at a talk at OSCON as well, which was recorded, and Karen and Bradley have asked for his permission to play it. (50:45)
  • Bradley asked folks to ping Richard on identi.ca to ask him to allow us to use his audio on the oggcast. (51:05)

Tags: bkuhn, karen, non-commercial, sflc, oscon, fontana, creative-commons, aaronw, patents, copyrights, trademarks, public domain, license compatibility, compliance, non-profits, gnome, questions, conferences, gpl

Inducing Fryers

Free as in Freedom episode 0x05

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Bradley and Karen welcome special co-presenter and guest, Aaron Williamson, to discuss the OpenBSD email regarding purported FBI backdoors. In the main segment, they discuss the amicus brief filed by SFLC (where Aaron and Karen work) in the Global-Tech Appliances v. SEB USA Supreme Court case.

Running time: 00:54:59.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:37)

Segment 1 (14:18)

Final (54:16)

These show notes are Copyright © 2010, Karen Sandler and Bradley M. Kuhn of Free as in Freedom, and are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 Unported license (CC-By-SA-3.0 Unported).

Tags: bkuhn, karen, sflc, patents, aaronw

Motions for Judgment

Software Freedom Law Show episode 0x29

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Karen, Bradley and Aaron talk about SFLC's motion for default judgment against Westinghouse Digital Electronics, a defendant in the ongoing lawsuit concerning GPL violations of BusyBox.

Running time: 38:15.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:33)

  • Bradley quoted from Act I Scene II of Hamlet, in which he once played Bernardo in a college production. Karen never played Bernardo (01:02)
  • Aaron mentioned Shakespeare's son Hamnet. (01:53)
  • The play Karen quotes from is indeed Julius Caesar. She forgot that she also had the lines: “My lord?” and “I will, my lord. ”(02:25)
  • The Bilski decision once again did not come out this week. The Supreme Court publishes all decisions on its website. The SCOTUS blog provides up to date information about the court schedule, including a live blog on the mornings when decisions are announced.(03:03)
  • Karen thinks that Aaron and Bradley do not know that the cake is a lie. (03:54)
  • Karen mentions patent number 3,987,541: Cutting guide for layered cake. (04:39)
  • SFLC filed a motion in the Southern District of New York against Westinghouse Digital Electronics, a defendant in the ongoing lawsuit concerning GPL violations of BusyBox. (05:10)
  • The original complaint in the ongoing case can be found here. (08:05)
  • The motion for default judgment or summary judgment can be found here. (09:00)
  • Shira Scheindlin is not related to Judge Judy, at least to the best of our knowledge. (10:23)
  • Karen mentioned Serving Sara, so we provide the obligatory IMDB link. Other sources for how service should be provided would probably be more reliable. (15:30)
  • Sewer service, as described by Aaron, is invalid service. Or you can use google, but that will mostly teach you about sewers and their maintenance. (18:46)

Tags: compliance, copyrights, gpl, aaronw, bkuhn, karen, sflc, conservancy

Public Domain

Software Freedom Law Show episode 0x23

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Aaron, Karen and Bradley discuss issues around the public domain and how it relates to copyright in general and copyrights on software in particular.

Running time: 00:58:13.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:36)

  • Aaron, Bradley, and Karen consider Aaron's status as a “special host”. Bradley wondered if that meant Aaron hosted a parasite. (Aaron subsequently got sick two days after recording, and is now playing the role of a biological “special host”.)
  • Bradley joked that copyright never expires in the USA due to retroactive extensions enacted by Congress. Aaron noted the Sony Bono 1998 Copyright Extension Act was the most recent act to do this. (05:47, 06:28)
  • Public domain dedications are relatively easy in the USA, but moral rights issues in European jurisdictions make public domain dedications difficult. (17:19)
  • The Berne Convention respects the issue of public domain, insofar as something definitely in the public domain in one country doesn't fall under copyright restrictions in other countries, but doesn't do much more than that regarding public domain. (17:30)
  • Creative Commons wrote CC0 to attempt to harmonize public domain dedication around the world. (18:53)
  • Bradley pointed out that the “WTFPL” license FAQ points out that it exists in part because of difficulties in putting things in the public domain in some jurisdictions. (25:36)
  • Karen looked up the word merchantability in Black's Law Dictionary. (30:07)

Segment 1 (29:52)

Tags: bkuhn, karen, copyrights, aaronw, public domain

Is Mobile Software Freedom Possible?

Software Freedom Law Show episode 0x1F

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Aaron Williamson, Karen Sandler, and Bradley M. Kuhn discuss the issues of software freedom on mobile telephone devices.

Running time: 00:47:32.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:32)

Tags: bkuhn, karen, aaronw, mobile, android

Re Bilski's Briefs

Software Freedom Law Show episode 0x17

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Bradley and special guest co-host, Aaron Williamson, discuss all about the amici briefs filed in the Bilski Supreme Court case.

Running time: 01:19:14.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:33)

Segment 1 (33:52)

Tags: bkuhn, patents, bilski, aaronw

Amicus Brief in Jacobsen v. Katzer

Software Freedom Law Show episode Secial Episode 1

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Karen and Bradley discuss the SFLC's amicus brief in the Jacobsen v. Katzer with their colleague, Aaron Williamson.

Running time: 00:19:01.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:27)

  • Bradley referred to the two different types of Latin pronunciation, which he learned in school as: Classic and Church. (01:33)
  • Karen explains what an amicus brief is. (01:47)
  • Aaron explained that the earlier court ruling that was a success for Free Software. (03:38)
  • An injunction in this context is a ruling from a court that the violator of the license must stop their activity that infringes the copyright. (05:46)
  • Karen explained why Free Software licenses are interpreted as copyright licenses rather than contracts, and why that is advantageous. (06:15)
  • Aaron explained why preliminary injunctions are a particular important remedy for Free Software developers. (07:00)
  • Karen mentioned we would have a direct link to our brief in the show notes, which is there and in the summary as well. (10:45)
  • Bradley mentioned his work regarding the Artistic-1.0 license (which is detailed in a blog post). (11:30, 13:30)
  • Each court has a different admission process. (14:27)

Tags: bkuhn, karen, copyrights, aaronw, jacobsen