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#1: What is Copyright

We have a look at the history of copyright and what it actually is.

#2: Copyright and Software

We look at how copyright affects software and why software licenses are necessary.

#3: The History of Free and Open Source Software

We take a look at the history of free and open source software.

#4: What is a (FOSS) License

What makes a software license a free and open source license?

#5: Classic Permissive Licenses

We take a tour of the classic permissive licenses. This episode discusses: BSDs, MIT.

#6: Modern Permissive Licenses

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.

#7: The GNU Licenses

We have a look at the GNU licenses. This episode discusses: GPL, LGPL, AGPL and GFDL.

#8: Tivoization

We take a look at tivoization. What is it, and why is it controversial?

#9: Patents - part 1

Mirko Boehm visits foss-north and talks about software patents (part 1).

#10: Patents - part 2

Mirko Boehm visits foss-north and talks about software patents (part 2).

#11: Open Projects

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.

#12: The curl license - part 1

In our summer special Daniel Stenberg visits foss-north and talks about curl, the curl license, and how he picked a license for curl.

#13: The curl license - part 2

We continue our summer special with Daniel Stenberg, Mr Curl. We discuss patents, emacs, vim, rust, wolfssl and more.

#14: Choose a License

After having discussed about licenses, patents, communities and more we discuss how to choose a license. What to think about and how to reason.

#15: We have a pod

Announcing that we have a pod and what we will talk about during the autumn.

Home of the pod cast: https://foss-north.se/pod

The next foss-north event: https://foss-north.se/2020ii/

The original events: https://foss-gbg.se and https://foss-sthlm.se

Future topics:

• Business Models
• Compliance
• Creative Commons
• CLAs
• Patents
• More...

Reach us at: info@foss-north.se

Other pod casts:

• https://fsfe.org/news/podcast.html
• https://kodsnack.se/360/

#16: Compliance - part 1

The foss-north crew discuss and explain copyright and licenses. This is the first part of three about license compliance.

Links:

• Links:SPDX: https://spdx.dev/
• REUSE: https://reuse.software/

#17: Compliance - part 2

The foss-north crew discuss and explain copyright and licenses. This is the second part of three about license compliance.

Links

• ScanCode: https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit
• FOSSology: https://www.fossology.org/
• LicenseFinder: https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder
• OSRT: https://github.com/oss-review-toolkit/ort/
• QuarterMaster: https://qmstr.org/

License

The foss-north pod is made available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Intro music made available under CC BY-SA by Harald Eilertsen.