Articles and Interviews
by or with Bradley M. Kuhn

2015

July

• 2015-07-14: Opensource Com

  Ben Cotton did an interview with me for opensource.com entitled How to win the copyleft fight—without litigation (archive.org link).

2014

November

• 2014-11-12: Groupon retreats from claim on Gnome Foundation trademarks

  In an article entitled Groupon retreats from claim on Gnome Foundation trademarks (archive.org version) Chris Duckett of ZDNet quoted extensively from My blog post, Groupon Tried To Take GNOME's Name & Failed.

August

• 2014-08-27: Forking instead of fighting

  Jake Edge of Linux Weekly News wrote an article about my LinuxCon North America 2014 talk, which was entitled entitled Fork and Ignore: Fighting a GPL Violation By Coding Instead . The slides are available (including in a text-only PDF format). The sources for the slides are also available.

April

• 2014-04-29: The Other Side of Openness: Licence Enforcement

  Glyn Moody wrote an article for ComputerWorld UK entitled The Other Side of Openness: Licence Enforcement (archive.org link) about my old blog post about Conservancy's GPL enforcement, my transition in roles at Conservancy, and a post I made on [email protected] mailing list telling some stories about politics of GPL enforcement.

2013

May

• 2013-05-22: Wanted: A Free Accounting Application for Non-Profits

  Bruce Byfield interviewed me for story for Linux Magazine entitled Wanted: A Free Accounting Application for Non-Profits about Software Freedom Conservancy's fundraising campaign for NPO accounting software.

March

• 2013-03-13: SCALE: The life and times of the AGPL

  Nathan Willis wrote an article for Linux Weekly News entitled SCALE: The life and times of the AGPL (archive.org link) about my talk at SCALE 11x entitled AGPLv3: Why It Exists and Who It's For. (Slides of that talk are also available.)

2011

August

• 2011-08-10: Desktop Summit: Copyright assignments

  Jake Edge wrote a story for Linux Weekly News about a ©AA/CLA panel that I participated in at Desktop Summit 2011.

June

• 2011-06-16: Evergreen Joins the Software Freedom Conservancy

  Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier quotes me in an article entitled, Evergreen Joins the Software Freedom Conservancy on the Linux.com blog. The discussion is about what's been happening with Conservancy since I started full-time there.

• 2011-06-07: Singling out OSS projects for FUD and profit

  Brian Proffitt mentions me in an IT World article, Singling out OSS projects for FUD and profit, which responds to Mark Radcliffe's FUD about GPL and how it relates to Android. Correct, Brian, I don't believe in witches and I certainly don't hunt them.

• 2011-06-06: Bradley Kuhn: a life devoted to Free Software

  Sam Varghese wrote a profile of me and my reasons for working on Free Software in IT Wire.

• 2011-06-03: Oracle spurns LibreOffice

  Ryan Paul quoted me in an Ars Technica article entitled Oracle spurns LibreOffice, wants to give OOo to Apache Foundation. The quote is taken from my blog post on the topic.

January

• 2011-01-18: Software Freedom Conservancy adds 25th member project

  Joe Brockmeier quoted me in a Network World article entitled Software Freedom Conservancy adds 25th member project.

2010

August

• 2010-08-06: Conservancy Default Judgment Against Westinghouse for GPL Violations

  Articles on Linux Planet, Ars Technica, Network World, H-Oline, Linux Weekly News, IT Wire and Slashdot covered the story when Conservancy got a default judgment against Westinghouse for BusyBox GPL violations.

July

• 2010-07-02: Reading The Bilski Tea Leaves

  TechDirt referenced my blog post about Bilski in a blog post entitled Reading The Bilski Tea Leaves For What The Supreme Court Thinks Of Software Patents.

June

• 2010-06-12: SouthEast Linux Fest 2010

  On Saturday 12 June 2010 at 09:00, I gave a talk at SouthEast Linux Fest entitled GPLv3: Better Copyleft for Users and Programmers.

May

• 2010-05-03: First, we kill all the patent lawyers by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

  Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols quoted me in an article entitled First, we kill all the patent lawyers.

2009

December

• 2009-12-18: GPL Enforcement Lawsuit in December 2009

  Here are a few news stories that quoted me while covered the GPL enforcement lawsuit by SFLC and Conservancy in December 2009.

  • internetnews.com
  • pcmag.com
  • computerworld.com
  • arstechnica.com
  • h-online.com

November

• 2009-11-10: Finding One New GPL Violation Per Day

  A slashdot story ran that covered (in part) my blog post about how to report GPL violations.

  The slashdot story links to the previous day's Ars Technica article by Ryan Paul, about that blog post, relating it to current events. then Emil Protalinski then wrote a follow-up Ars Technica article that covers the ongoing story.

  A few days later, the same story got coverage on techdirt.com.

October

• 2009-10-27: The quest for a truly open smartphone: can it be done?

  My blog post on software freedom for mobile devices was quoted in an article entitled The quest for a truly open smartphone: can it be done? by Ryan Paul in Ars Technica.

July

• 2009-07-27: Microsoft violated the GPL

  David Worthington quoted me in an article entitled Microsoft violated the GPL in the SD Times.

• 2009-07-15: Linux Outlaws 102 - Goo/Linux

  As a second time guest on the Linux Outlaws podcast, Dan and Fab interviewed me about Mono and patents. The podcast is available in mp3 and ogg.

February

• 2009-02-26: SFLC Tech Director Wants To Liberate The Cloud

  Ars Technica wrote an article about my keynote at SCALE (Southern California Linux Expo) 7x.

January

• 2009-01-29: Sam Ramji Says GPL is challenging for Microsoft

  David Worthington interviewed me for an article entitled Sam Ramji: GPL is challenging for Microsoft in the SD Times.

• 2009-01-27: The GCC Runtime Library Exception

  I was one of the drafters of the GCC Runtime Library Exception, Version 3.0. I wrote a blog post about the exception.

2008

December

• 2008-12-29: SFLC's Kuhn Remains Skeptical of Ramji's Remarks

  David Worthington wrote an article entitled SFLC's Kuhn remains skeptical of Ramji's remarks in the SD Times.

August

• 2008-08-26: A Practical Guide to GPL Compliance

  I co-wrote A Practical Guide to GPL Compliance (with Aaron Williamson and Karen Sandler), which was published on the Software Freedom Law Center's resources page.

May

• 2008-05-31: Linux Outlaws 40

  I was the first guest ever on the Linux Outlaws podcast. The podcast is available in mp3 and ogg.

April

• 2008-04-19: Bradley Kuhn makes a better world through software freedom

  Bradley Kuhn makes a better world through software freedom, an interview with me by Tina Gasperson, appeared on linux.com.

February

• 2008-02-14: A Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and Free Software Projects

  I co-authored with many of my colleagues A Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and Free Software Projects, which was published on the Software Freedom Law Center's resources page.

2007

November

• 2007-11-14: Linux Link Technology Show

  I was interviewed for two hours on the Linux Link Technology Show. The audio is available in ogg format and mp3 format.

September

• 2007-09-27: Maintaining Permissive-Licensed Files in a GPL-Licensed Project, Guidelines for Developers

  I co-authored with a few of my colleagues Maintaining Permissive-Licensed Files in a GPL-Licensed Project: Guidelines for Developers, which was published on the Software Freedom Law Center's resources page.

• 2007-09-27: Code Analysis of the Linux Wireless Team's ath5k Driver

  I co-authored with a few of my colleagues a paper entitled Code Analysis of the Linux Wireless Team's ath5k Driver, which was published on the Software Freedom Law Center's resources page.

May

• 2007-05-21: LUG Radio, Episode 78

  I was interviewed on Episode 78 of LUG Radio. Audio is available in ogg format and mp3 format.

2004

May

• 2004-05-18: SCO Subpoenas the FSF

  I wrote an essay regarding the SCO Subpoena of FSF, which was published on the Free Software Foundation website. It was covered in an InfoWorld article by Robert McMillan.

March

• 2004-03-04: FSF raises doubts over two open source licences

  Sam Varghese quoted me in an article regarding Apache Licenes/GPLv2 compatibility, entitled FSF raises doubts over two open source licences.

January

• 2004-01-27: On SCO, Global Free Software, and GPL Enforcement

  Brian Jepson wrote an article based on an interview with me at Linux World Expo and entitled it On SCO, Global Free Software, and GPL Enforcement (archive.org link). It was published on O'Reilly's On LAMP.

2003

October

• 2003-10-14: Linux's Hit Men

  Daniel Lyons' writing is only useful for its humor value. I'm amazed that Forbes was willing to publish (non-ironically) this article he wrote about me and Eben Moglen entitled Linux's Hit Men (archive.org link). I never thought doing GPL enforcement made me the equivalent of Tony Soprano. I think Lyons' analogy machine is out of whack.

August

• 2003-08-08: Untested GPL may be at center of IBM-SCO suit

  Robert McMillan quoted me extensively in an article entitled Untested GPL may be at center of IBM-SCO suit.

July

• 2003-07-10: FSF raises doubts over two open source licences

  Todd R. Weiss quoted me in an article about SCO v. IBM entitled Open-source experts critique SCO lawsuit against IBM.

May

• 2003-05-22: SCO using scare tactics to get licensing fees

  An article entitled SCO using scare tactics to get licensing fees (archive.org link) in the Sydney Morning Herald quoted me regarding the SCO v. IBM case.

• 2003-05-21: Microsoft licenses Unix technology from SCO

  Juan Carlos Perez quoted me in an article entitled Microsoft licenses Unix technology from SCO that appeared in InfoWorld.

April

• 2003-04-09: Focus on Software Piracy Problem

  Katie Dean quoted me in a Wired article about so-called “software piracy” entitled Focus on Software Piracy Problem.

2002

September

• 2002-09-23: Microsoft licenses Unix technology from SCO

  Matthew Broersma quoted me in a ZDNet article entitled UnitedLinux defends open-source roots.

June

• 2002-06-04: FSF Says LindowsOS moving toward GPL compliance

  Tina Gasperson quoted me in a follow-up article on the Lindows issue, entitled FSF: LindowsOS moving toward GPL compliance regarding the GPL violation of Lindows.

April

• 2002-04-26: Kuhn advocates “GNU Age” of free software for computers

  Chimes, the student newspaper at Calvin College covered a speech that I gave there (archive.org link).

• 2002-04-11: FSF asks Lindows, “Where's the source?”

  Tina Gasperson quoted me in an article entitled FSF asks Lindows, “Where's the source?”, which discussed a GPL violation by Lindows. Bruce Perens responded with an open letter a few days later.

February

• 2002-02-27: GPL Enforcement Goes To Court For First Time In MySQL Case

  Tina Gasperson quoted me in an article entitled GPL Enforcement Goes To Court For First Time In MySQL Case (archive.org link) that appeared on NewsForge and in The Register.

• 2002-02-17: Case to Test Principles Of Free Software Movement

  Hiawatha Bray of the Boston Globe quoted me in an article entitled Case to Test Principles Of the Free Software Movement, which covered the MySQL AB vs. Progress/NuSphere dispute.

2001

November

• 2001-11-11: Freedom or Power?

  Freedom or Power?, (available in English, in French, in Spanish, in Portuguese, and in Italian). This article was published on the Free Software Foundation's website and the GNU Project's Philosophy Page. This article was co-written with Richard M. Stallman. This was a more polished, “stand-alone” version of the essay.

October

• 2001-10-29: IBM Efforts Both Help, Hurt Free Software Initiative

  Mark Hall quoted me in an article entitled IBM Efforts Both Help, Hurt Free Software Initiative at Computer World.

• 2001-10-05: Microsoft Has Tied the Valley's Hands

  Microsoft Has Tied the Valley's Hands. (Available as ASCII Text.) Silicon Valley Business Ink (article appeared in print and online), Friday 5 October 2001 Issue. (SVBI is out of business, so only the link on my own site is valid.)

September

• 2001-09-17: RTLinux, FSMLabs, and GPL Enforcement

  Peter Galli quoted me in an article entitled Free Software Foundation Targets RTLinux for GPL Violations, and Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols quoted me in an article entitled Whither FSF? Group faces more challenges than ever.

August

• 2001-08-15: Freedom or Power, Version 0

  Freedom or Power?, Version 0 (available in HTML and ASCII Text), was published on the O'Reilly Network. This article was co-written with Richard M. Stallman.

July

• 2001-07-24: A Novel Approach for Porting Perl to the Java Virtual Machine

  A paper entitled A Novel Approach for Porting Perl to the Java Virtual Machine, (which is available as HTML, Postscript, PDF, ASCII Text, and POD) was published at The Perl Conference 5.0 in San Diego, CA, USA. (Pages 68-72 in the proceedings.)

June

• 2001-06-28: Microsoft Is Open to Open Source

  Matt Berger quoted me in an article entitled Microsoft Is Open to Open Source (archive.org version). It was interesting to note that at a time when Microsoft was attacking the GPL, they distributed software under its terms, and makes the later coverage in 2009 when they released a Linux driver somewhat silly.

May

• 2001-05-03: The GNU GPL and the American Dream

  The GNU GPL and the American Dream. (Available in Catalan, in Dutch, in English, in French, in Italian), in Polish, in Russian, and in Spanish). The article was published on the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project's Philosophy Page.

February

• 2001-02-15: JVM to .NET, I'm Not Dead Yet!

  I wrote an article for the O'Reilly Network entitled JVM to .NET: I'm Not Dead Yet! (available in HTML).

January

• 2001-01-22: Considerations on Porting Perl to the Java Virtual Machine

  My Master's thesis at the University of Cincinnati was entitled Considerations on Porting Perl to the Java Virtual Machine, and it is available as HTML, PDF, Postscript, and a .tar.gz file of the LaTeX Source. A Postscript version of the slides used in my thesis defense is also available.

• 2001-01-09: Picking Up Perl

  I spent some time writing a tutorial book on Perl, which originally stemmed out of notes I wrote for a few classes I taught on Perl. It was called Picking Up Perl, and is available as HTML, PDF, Postscript, and .tar.gz file of Texinfo Source.

2000

July

• 2000-07-18: perljvm, Using B to Facilitate a Perl Port To the Java Virtual Machine

  A referred paper entitled perljvm: Using B to Facilitate a Perl Port To the Java Virtual Machine. (available as HTML, Postscript, PDF, ASCII Text, and POD) was published at The Perl Conference 4.0 in Monterey, CA, USA (pages 17-23 in proceedings). This paper received the 2000 Damian Conway Award for Best Technical Paper.

1999

November

• 1999-11-18: Who controls free software?

  Andrew Leonard quoted me in an article entitled Who Controls Free Software? at Salon.com.

1997

February

• 1997-02-28: Crozzle, An NP-Complete Problem

  A referred paper entitled Crozzle: An NP-Complete Problem, (available as HTML, as Postscript and as PDF), was published at The 1997 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing in San Jose, CA, USA. (This paper was co-authored with David W. Binkley.)

1996

February

• 1996-02-19: A Simple Enabling Optimization for C++ Virtual Functions

  A referred paper entitled A Simple Enabling Optimization for C++ Virtual Functions, (available as HTML, as Postscript and as PDF), was published at The 1996 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing in Philadelphia, PA, USA, February 17-19, 1996. (This article was co-authored with David W. Binkley.)

1995

June

• 1995-06-22: The Decomposition Slice Display System

  An referred paper entitled The Decomposition Slice Display System, (available as HTML and as Postscript), appeared The Seventh International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (Rockville, MD, USA. June 22-25, 1995). (This article was co-authored with Dennis J. Smith and Keith B. Gallagher.)

1994

December

• 1994-12-15: In Search of a Customizable and Uniform User Interface

  A paper entitled In Search of a Customizable and Uniform User Interface (available as HTML and as Postscript). This article appeared in Crossroads, the International ACM Student Magazine, Issue 1.2, December 1994. (This article was co-authored with David Binkley.)