On Saturday I engaged in discussion on Identica unilaterally with Richard Fontana as to whether or not there would be barriers to doing an outright reading of copyleft-next. Previously the production team at Erie Looking Productions produced a reading of the latest Ubuntu Code of Conduct as a readability test. It was noted that CCO would not be a barrier and that in theory nothing would stop proceeding.
Following that I discussed with the engineer and producer at Erie Looking Productions the notion of doing this. After having done the reading of the Ubuntu Code of Conduct, this was not dismissed out of hand and we proceeded to set this up. After some difficulty with the low-budget ereader that normally bears the speaking scripts for programs unfaithfully rendering text due to Pandoc issues, the engineer and I carried out a series of edits to ensure the license was faithfully and correctly read out.
The end result can be found here: http://lisnews.org/listen_an_lisnewsorg_program_episode_230
Stephen Michael Kellat
On 01/28/2013 12:32 AM, Stephen Michael Kellat wrote:
The end result can be found here: http://lisnews.org/listen_an_lisnewsorg_program_episode_230
Seems kind of long, but I can only imagine how much longer it would take you to read the GPLv3 text.
One quite valuable result of this: I would say you read the 'Effect of Proprietary Relicensing' provision with the "had You prepared it" given the wrong sort of inflection or emphasis, which suggests the provision should be rewritten to use plainer language.
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