SFP#41: Policy and EU: Recap of SFSCON

SFP#41: Policy and EU: Recap of SFSCON

Author: Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) November 14, 2025 Duration: 26:37
Remember that from the 7 November until 8 November, the FSFE has been at the well known and established South Tyrol Free Software Conference (SFSCON) in Bozen / Bolzano? Together with more than 1,000 participants, the FSFE discussed the current topics in the Free Software ecosystem and had a special focus on the main topic of this year's SFSCON: Ethics. Join the FSFE community and support the podcast: https://my.fsfe.org/support?referrer=podcast

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SFP#9: I Love Free Software Day [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:03
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SFP#8: How to tell my mother that Free Software can cost money? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 26:18
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Duration: 28:25
We 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…
SFP Special about GNU Health with Dr. Luis Falcón and Dr. Axel Braun [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 27:29
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 informatio…
SFP#5 about regulation with Professor Lawrence Lessig [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 25:43
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, off…
SFP#4 about REUSE with Carmen Bianca Bakker [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 23:38
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 br…
SFP#2 about KDE with Lydia Pintscher [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 23:40
We are back with the second episode of our Software Freedom Podcast! Once a month, we talk with people who have inspiring ideas about software freedom. In this episode, we talk with Lydia Pintscher from KDE about the dev…
SFP#1 on Day Against DRM with Cory Doctorow [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 39:42
We have a Podcast! Starting with this episode, we will talk once a month with people who have inspiring ideas about software freedom. In our first episode of our Software Freedom Podcast, we address the issue of Digital…