On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Michael Ossmann <
address@hidden> wrote:
...An educated lawyer is going to be able to provide insights
into how a particular license or contract affects his or her client,
even after a single reading, that a layman would not notice...
The complaint is aimed at a general tendency of the lawyers I've actually dealt with, repeatedly, in connection with dual-licensing issues involving code of my own already under GPL. That's around 3/4 dozen attorneys. Of that group, only one was candid enough to admit up-front to ignorance concerning the GPL. The remainder basically engaged in elaborate handwaving. (Full disclosure: some of them were on the *other* side of the negotiation, and not doing their clients any favors.)
The problem isn't not knowing, the problem is dissembling about not knowing. The point is, caveat emptor.
Frank
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Travelling by airplane in the US is nothing more than mass training of Americans to the requirements of the coming police state. The whole point is to make you learn to acquiesce without question, en masse, to completely absurd directives by dull functionaries wearing uniforms. -- Atrios