A bi-weekly discussion of legal, policy, and other issues in the open source and software freedom community (including occasional interviews) from Brooklyn, New York, USA. Presented by Karen Sandler and Bradley M. Kuhn.
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0x5F: Was 2018 the Year of Non-FOSS Licensing?
Bradley and Karen return, as promised, in 2018 (just barely)! They discuss the many non-FOSS and otherwise software-freedom-unfriendly licenses that have been promulgated in 2018.
Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36)Bradley and Karen discuss ideas for what to do with the oggcast going forward.
Segment 2 (07:49)- Bradley mentioned the field of endeavor restriction in Open Source Defintion. (09:20)
- Bradley mentioned how badly Amazon treats its workers who pack boxes, which was widely reported this month (10:22).
- Bradley referenced that someone changed attempted to change a license on a project to prohibit use by USA border protection agents. This was the Lerna project, and Bradley wrote a blog post about it earlier this year. (12:14)
- Bradley mentioned the controversy about the new MongoDB license, the SS Public License, which Bradley also wrote a blog post about earlier this year (14:09)
- karen reports that many people at the Sustain OSS Conference were surprised that sustaining the idelogy of software freedom was something that people value. (27:10)
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