We have a look at the history of copyright and what it actually is.
We look at how copyright affects software and why software licenses are necessary.
We take a look at the history of free and open source software.
What makes a software license a free and open source license?
We take a tour of the classic permissive licenses. This episode discusses: BSDs, MIT.
We continue our tour of permissive licenses. This episode discusses: Apache License 2.0, MPL 2.0, various other permissive licenses such as WTFPL, Beerware, Unlicense, CC-0, zlib license.
We have a look at the GNU licenses. This episode discusses: GPL, LGPL, AGPL and GFDL.
We take a look at tivoization. What is it, and why is it controversial?
Mirko Boehm visits foss-north and talks about software patents (part 1).
Mirko Boehm visits foss-north and talks about software patents (part 2).
What is an open project? There is more beyond open source. We also discuss why open projects sometimes are less open. For instance when it comes to responsible disclosure and trademarks.
In our summer special Daniel Stenberg visits foss-north and talks about curl, the curl license, and how he picked a license for curl.
We continue our summer special with Daniel Stenberg, Mr Curl. We discuss patents, emacs, vim, rust, wolfssl and more.
After having discussed about licenses, patents, communities and more we discuss how to choose a license. What to think about and how to reason.