Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday 22 May 2006 16:52, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>> I don't think the chance of "nutcase sueing Sun for Bad Applet" is any >> more relevant or likely than the chance of "nutcase sueing Debian for >> bad browser". I really don't see how it makes the license problematic. > And that is why, in legal matters, Debian needs the combined expertise > of the volunteer lawyers on debian-legal, rather than the "legal > opinion" of a programmer. There are volunteer lawyers on debian-legal who are actually issuing legal opinions? My understanding was that if Debian needed a legal opinion, we needed to go to the SPI counsel. Volunteering legal opinions on a public mailing list sounds like a very risky endeavor for a lawyer, and I'm very surprised that there are lawyers doing so. Could you point to some of their posts? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
