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1. Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

   At #LinuxCon, @fontana: "majority rule & culturally authentic" #FLOSS licensing is for inbound & outbound license to be exactly the same.

   Thursday, 12-Aug-10 15:39:46 UTC from web
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

     At #LinuxCon @fontana "more common than not patches don't formally specify their licenses" I think ppl should, but no big deal if they don't

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 15:41:52 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

     At #LinuxCon, @fontana keeps using me as his example for everything. I probably made a mistake sitting in the front, I think.

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 15:42:56 UTC
   • Fabian Scherschel Richard Fontana

     Someone tell Mark that... ♺ @bkuhn: At #LinuxCon, @fontana: #FLOSS licensing is for inbound & outbound license to be exactly the same.

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 15:43:39 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

     Glad @fontana called out the serious concerns related to #Open_Core & copyright assignment in his #LinuxCon talk. Wish he'd said more,though

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 15:44:13 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Fabian Scherschel , Richard Fontana

     @fabsh,Stop,you're going to make me #lol right in middle of @fontana's #LinuxCon talk & I'm sitting but 8 feet from him & I'll distract him.

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 15:45:14 UTC
   • Fabian Scherschel

     @bkuhn That would be my ultimate goal! :D

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 15:47:03 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

     At #LinuxCon @fontana mentioned only in passing common #FSF © assignment feature: the promise back not to proprietarize. Wish he'd said more

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 15:47:20 UTC
   • Fabian Scherschel Richard Fontana

     @bkuhn I wish I was there.... Say hello to @fontana from me. :)

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 15:48:02 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

     At #LinuxCon, @fontana says many Contributor Licensing Agreements are close to copyright assignment. I'd say dangerously close, sometimes.

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 15:49:09 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

     At #LinuxFoundation, @fontana makes subtle joke about Rosen's #OSL / !AGPLv3 incompatability. I wonder how many in audience caught it.

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 15:50:43 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

     At #LinuxCon, @fontana points out that #KDE allows developers multiple choices for contributor licensing. That's cool. I didn't know that!

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 15:51:44 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

     At #LinuxCon, @fontana is first #FLOSS speaker I've ever heard talk about developer attachment to their work as a Lockean property idea.

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 15:52:33 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

     #LinuxCon, @fontana has a slide that's basically shortened version of #mmeeks blog post about why copyright assignment is considered harmful

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 15:53:36 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn The GNU General Public License , Richard Fontana

     Ah, @fontana made a brief reference to the dangers of the #MySQL hyper-aggression !GPL enforcement issues in his #LinuxCon talk. #Open_Core

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 15:54:19 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

     #LinuxCon @fontana: Developers want patch under outbound license, but #Open_Core company (like Sun) will reject patch & reimplement in house

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 15:56:16 UTC
   • Ted Smith

     @bkuhn you are filling my entire gwibber window

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 15:58:06 UTC
   • Ted Smith

     @bkuhn (don't worry, it's a good thing)

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 15:58:15 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

     #LinuxCon: @fontana says: "argument for © assignment is unclear & incoherent". But he tries to present it anyway for completeness (I assume)

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 15:58:16 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

     #LinuxCon: Gotta tell @fontana he can either have live-denting of talk, or he can call on me to say something every 5 minutes, but not both.

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 16:00:00 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn The GNU General Public License , Richard Fontana

     #LinuxCon @fontana talking about question of whether © assignment is necessary for !GPL enforcement work. (Covering joint work thing first)

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 16:01:05 UTC
   • karen sandler Richard Fontana

     @bkuhn ha, maybe @fontana wants me to live dent...

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 16:02:13 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Linux , The GNU General Public License , Richard Fontana

     #LinuxCon: @fontana says "if !Linux is a joint work of ©, Ted T'so could unilaterally relicense it non- !GPL. But Linux isn't a joint work."

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 16:02:42 UTC
   • Gordon Sinclair

     @bkuhn if someone brings some tar and feathers to the stage, then start worrying; )

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 16:03:05 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn karen sandler , Richard Fontana

     @kaz, I think @fontana has merely forgotten that I'm typing furiously not b/c I'm ignoring him, but b/c I'm live-denting his #LinuxCon talk.

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 16:03:37 UTC
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     @bkuhn the argument has always been that if you sign it over to the fsf, they will have an easier time …

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 16:04:29 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn The GNU General Public License , Richard Fontana

     At #LinuxCon, @fontana says joint © argument "doesn't make that much sense in the end". !GPL works are a series of derivatives, not joint.

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 16:05:27 UTC
   • karen sandler Richard Fontana

     @bkuhn, yep, a couple of interesting points made by @fontana.

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 16:07:00 UTC
   • Simon Phipps Richard Fontana

     @fontana Meeks' conversion to no-CLAs after being a proponent for years made him somewhat evangelistic (as elsewhere in life!)

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 19:54:44 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

     @fontana, that might have been funny. Of course John Locke of #Lost was named after that Locke on purpose, but their reference was muddled.

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 20:23:11 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn The GNU General Public License , Brett Smith , Richard Fontana

     @fontana, you seriously think you & I are only ones there who get subtle Basic !GPL Compatibility Theory jokes? Surely @brettcsmith got it!

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 20:25:06 UTC
   • der.hans Richard Fontana , Ryan Rix

     @rrix ♻ @bkuhn @fontana points out that #KDE allows developers multiple choices for contributor licensing. That's cool. I didn't know that!

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 20:27:01 UTC
   • Ryan Rix der.hans

     @lufthans Yup, and a choice of whether or not to assign copyright by signing the FLA.

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 20:32:01 UTC
   • Ryan Rix der.hans

     @lufthans http://ur1.ca/13nki

     Thursday, 12-Aug-10 20:35:15 UTC