Videos on free Java, Alan Cox, and GPLv3
Below are four recordings of talks. I’ve been hoping to do a write up about these, but haven’t found the time, so I’ll just post the links anyway – before they get old. The first two are quite interesting:
- But I Don’t Code!, by Alan Cox (topics covered)
- Workshop about free Java with folk from Sun, GNU Classpath, Debian, and Red Hat
And the other two are about GPLv3. These aren’t quite as interesting. I’m hesitant to link to them since they contain mistakes and they mostly take the open source perspective which I think is counterproductive, but they are still part of the GPLv3 debate.
As I mentioned in my last post, I think one of the important aspects of the GPLv3 process is that it has generated enough informed debate such that any similar activities in the future will have a better starting point. But that only happens for the bits we’ve all remembered to record (in text or audio), and it only happens if we don’t let those recordings disappear or go unread/unheard. So here are the other two videos I came across recently:
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