Software Freedom Podcast

SFP#9: I Love Free Software Day For this episode of the Software Freedom Podcast we talk about the background of the "I Love Free Software Day" and how it all began 11 years ago. Discover together with Bonnie Mehring why Free Software developers, advocates, activists and contributors think this special day is so important for Free Software. In this ninth episode, Bonnie Mehring and Matthias Kirschner cover one of the oldest FSFE campaigns: "I Love Free Software Day". Together, they explore the early days of the campaign and dive into the many special moments it has provoked. For this episode Bonnie has invited prominent members of the Free Software community to share their thoughts on the importance of saying thank you to Free Software contributors. These include Lydia Pintscher from KDE, Greg Kroah-Hartmann from the Linux Foundation, Florian Effenberger from The Document Foundation, Miriam Ballhausen from the FSFE's Legal Network, Pamela Chestek also from the Legal Network and member of the OSI Board, Polina Malaja from the FSFE's CARE Team and CENTR, and Greg Farough from the Free Software Foundation. Read more:What is Free Software?I Love Free Software DayJoin "I Love Free Software Day" by creating your own share-picIf you liked this episode and want to support our continuous work for software freedom, please help us with a donation.Join the FSFE community and support the podcast

SFP#8: How to tell my mother that Free Software can cost money? In this Software Freedom Podcast episode Bonnie Mehring and Matthias Kirschner talk about the monetary costs of Free Software. On the example of a conversation Bonnie had with her mother, both discover ways of explaining the world of Free Software and how to answer common questions and misunderstandings about software freedom. For this episode we talk about why Free Software can cost money. Bonnie Mehring and Matthias Kirschner discuss the topics: How can I pay for Free Software and why is it important to pay and thereby support Free Software? What are the different models of earning money with Free Software and where is the difference of earning money as an individual or as a company. Throughout this conversation both explain the concept of Free Software and talk about some of the most common questions. This is the perfect episode for explaining to your loved ones what Free Software is. Read more:What is Free Software?There is no Free Software company - But!Free-Libre / Open Source Software (FLOSS) is Commercial SoftwareThe core values of software freedomNext Generation InternetIf you liked this episode and want to support our continuous work for software freedom, please help us with a donation.Join the FSFE community and support the podcast

SFP#7 Artificial intelligence as Free Software with Vincent Lequertier For the seventh episode of our Software Freedom Podcast we talk with Vincent Lequertier about transparency, fairness, and accessibility as crucial criteria for artificial intelligence (AI) and why it is important for our society to release AI software under a Free Software license. Our guest for the seventh episode of the Software Freedom Podcast is Vincent Lequertier. Vincent is a member of the Free Software Foundation Europe and is researching AI in the health care sector. Together we discuss the use and development of artificial intelligence from a Free Software perspective. Vincent explains what AI actually is and why it is important for our society to release AI software under a Free Software license. We discuss why the criteria of transparency, fairness and accessibility are important when working with artificial intelligence and how they relate to Free Software. Finally, we also discover what challenges AI is facing in the future and whether we should be afraid of the increasing use of this technology in our daily lives. Read more:Vincent Lequertier interview"Putting artificial intelligence back into people's hands", Vincent's talk at FOSDEM"Upcoming Challenges in artificial intelligence Research and Development", an OW2online20 talk by VincentTensorFlow, an end-to-end open source machine learning libraryKeras, an easy-to-use API built on top of TensorFlowPytorch, an open source machine learning frameworkAI-Box Experiment (xkcd)White paper: On artificial intelligence - A European approach to excellence and trust (European Commission)Article about racial bias in healthcare algorithmsScientific paper about racial bias in healthcare algorithmsIf you liked this episode and want to support our continuous work for software freedom, please help us with a donation.Join the FSFE community and support the podcast

SFP#6 Copyright enforcement with Miriam BallhausenWe invited Miriam Ballhausen to talk with us about copyright enforcement. She is a German lawyer who focuses on software, data protection, copyright law and specifically Free Software copyright. This is the sixth regular episode of the Software Freedom Podcast for which we invite experts from our community.In this sixth episode of the Software Freedom Podcast we talk about Free Software copyright enforcement with our guest, Miriam Ballhausen. Miriam Ballhausen is a German laywer who specialises in Free Software copyright questions. Together we cover the basics about Free Software licensing and discuss how Free Software copyright can be enforced, what are the steps to enforce it and why it is often enforced in Germany. We also explore how the REUSE project could help with being in compliance with Free Software licenses.Read more:"What is Free Software?"The Principles of Community-Oriented GPL EnforcementFree Software Licensing ResourcesViolations of the GNU LicensesREUSEREUSE Git repositoriesREUSE helper toolThe Legal NetworkIf you liked this episode and want to support our continuing work for software freedom, please help us with a donation.Join the FSFE community and support the podcast

SFP Special about GNU Health with Dr. Luis Falcón and Dr. Axel Braun For our Software Freedom Podcast we talk with people who have inspiring ideas about software freedom. In this special episode, we talk with Dr. Luis Falcón and Dr. Axel Braun about the Free health and hospital information system GNU Health.Unfortunately, as we had to do this podcast remotely this time, we cannot provide the same level of audio quality as you are used to in this podcast. We apologise for this and will look into better solutions for remote recordings for future episodes. In this special episode of the Software Freedom Podcast we talk about some of the advantages of GNU Health and how as a Free health and hospital information system it can and already does help with the current Covid-19 pandemic. Our guests are Dr. Luis Falcón who is the author of GNU Health and Dr. Axel Braun who published the first live CD of GNU Health. We discover how and why Dr. Luis Falcón got the idea for the software and what are the next steps in the development of GNU Health, how it is financed and where it is already being used. Together we speak about the importance of a Free health and hospital information system and why public code is essential in the public health care sector during the Covid-19 crisis and beyond. This is the perfect episode for an overview of how important Free Software is in the current situation and especially in hospitals and the public health system. GNU Health – the free health and hospital information systemRead more:GNU Health"Tackling the Beast: Using GNU Health to help the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic"GNU Health in 5 Minutes“Public Money? Public Code!” For more background information on public code in the public administrationsCOVID-19 Hackathons: Only Free Software creates global solutionsFSFE Supporters write about Free Software for remote workingFreeware, Free Software and the Corona Virus Crisis – Choose your tools wisely!FSFE in times of Corona: How a virus affects usWhat is Free Software?The four freedoms of Free SoftwareIf you liked this episode and want to support our continuing work for software freedom, please help us with a donation.Join the FSFE community and support the podcast

SFP#5 about regulation with Professor Lawrence Lessig For our Software Freedom Podcast we talk with people who have inspiring ideas about software freedom. In this episode, we talk with Professor Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons, about regulation of society, offline as well as online, about the different means of regulation, and shed light on regulations through code. This fifth episode of the Software Freedom Podcast covers the complicated topic of regulation. Our guest is Professor Lawrence Lessig from the Harvard Law School. Lessig is a former board member of the Free Software Foundation and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, as well as founder and present Board member of Creative Commons. Lessig has published several books, including the influential and often-quoted "Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace". In this episode we discuss with Professor Lessig the different types of regulation that affect society both online and offline, such as laws, norms, the market, or architecture. In this respect we also touch upon code as a means of regulation. Enjoy learning about the positive and negative effects that some of these regulations can have on society, as well as the further development of ideas. Katharina Nocun, Lawrence Lessig and Matthias Kirschner while recording the Software Freedom Podcast.Read more:Professor Lawrence LessigBooks from Professor Lawrence LessigFree Software FoundationCreative CommonsCopyrightWhat is Free Software?The four freedoms of Free SoftwareIf you liked this episode and want to support our continuing work for software freedom, please help us with a donation.Join the FSFE community and support the podcast

SFP#4 about REUSE with Carmen Bianca Bakker In the monthly Software Freedom Podcast we talk with people who have inspiring ideas about software freedom. In this episode, we talk with Carmen Bianca Bakker about the REUSE project. By this we are covering the very broad topic of software licensing and the problems there, which REUSE is able to solve with three simple steps. With the first episode of 2020 and the fourth episode of the Software Freedom Podcast we aimed at the broad and sometimes complicated topic of software licensing. For this we invited Carmen Bianca Bakker who is together with Max Mehl working on the REUSE project. The REUSE project helps with the licensing of software by making licensing easy for humans as well as for machines. Together with Carmen we discuss the problems that occur with licensing, talk about the REUSE tool and the next steps in its development. Read more:REUSEREUSE Git repositoriesREUSE-toolThe four freedoms of Free SoftwareWhat is Free Software?If you liked this episode and want to support our continuing work for software freedom, please help us with a donation.Join the FSFE community and support the podcast

SFP#3 about Free Software mobile phone communication with Harald Welte Once a month, we talk with people who have inspiring ideas about software freedom. In this third episode, our guest is Harald Welte, Free Software programmer and activist. Harald discusses with us his current projects regarding mobile phone communication and the general status of Free Software in this area. One of the main topics this year was and still is the coming implementation of the 5G standard. There were long debates, and several countries have taken steps to ban specific vendors. These countries are even trying to convince others to do likewise. To allow enough room for this broad issue and include an expert's point of view, we dedicate a full Software Freedom Podcast episode to discuss this with Harald Welte. Harald is a Free Software developer known for his involvement in OpenMoko, the first Free Software phone; his work for gplviolations.org to make sure companies adhere to the obligations of Free Software licenses; and nowadays his work on the umbrella project "Open source mobile communications", or Osmocom for short.Together with Harald, we give you an overview of the use of Free Software in mobile phone communication; talk with you about the basics of this technology; about the difference of 3G, 4G, and 5G; the Huawei ban and Osmocom; as well as about the state of Free Software in those fields.Read more:About OsmocomOsmocom Git repositoriesHuawei case demonstrates importance of Free Software for securityThree conclusions to draw from Google denying Huawei access to softwareIf you liked this episode and want to support our continuing work for software freedom, please help us with a donation.Join the FSFE community and support the podcast

Lydia Pintscher, vice president of the KDE community and long-time contributor, shares insights on KDE’s origins and wide range of apps. She talks about balancing a day job with volunteer leadership. Conversations cover KDE’s multi-year goals like Wayland, app distribution and UI consistency, Plasma Mobile and open mobile stacks, mentoring, contributor growth, and sustainability decisions.

Cory Doctorow, British-Canadian writer and digital rights activist who publishes under Creative Commons, joins to discuss DRM and its consequences. He contrasts DRM-locked ebooks with traditional books. He warns about DRM servers going dark and lost purchases. He explores how DRM affects security, competition, and the Internet of Things.