[Wylug-discuss] James Vasile Talks about Legal Aspects of Software Licences

[John R. Hudson]

Recommended. I downloaded it the first time round.

John
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On Mon, 2013-06-03 at 23:20 +0100, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Hi
> 
> https://soundcloud.com/richard-ibbotson/james-vasile-came-to-sheffield
> 
> I did this so that everyone could listen to it.  Not for me to prevent
> it's distribution.  With that in mind I thought I should put it on
> SoundCloud.
> 
> This is a presentation that we did back in April 2008.  This is a talk
> given at Sheffield Hallam University some years ago about the subject of
> open source software and legal aspects of the General Public Licence.
> Replicating the success of free software.
> 
> The content of James' talk was something like the following. The Free
> Software movement has proven itself in every imaginable way. We have
> quality software on servers, desktops and in embedded systems. Free
> Software is used in homes, offices, retail and in manufacturing.
> Everywhere from back rooms to classrooms and boardrooms. We've spawned
> new business models and changed the economics of old ones. The
> challenges that are left will be met and soon.
> 
> Such has been the success of free software that we have spawned entire
> other movements. From Creative Commons to open hardware to open
> science, everybody wants to replicate Free Software's achievements in
> new media. Even further, there are people fighting for values that,
> while beloved in the Free Software world, are not protected by the
> Free Software society. Values like privacy and data portability
> between web services. Each of these attempts borrows from Free
> Software's history. This talk looks at what is being taken, what is
> being left, and why. It's an inquiry into the future, as we ask how to
> nurture these nascent movements.
> 
> --
> Richard
> www.sheflug.org.uk
> 
> https://twitter.com/SleepyPenguin1
> 
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