Re: [Fwd: [DotGNU]A good warning?] and Do we have any law people around for FD?

[Barry Fitzgerald]

I say we contact RMS and Mr. Moglen - as far as I can tell, they would
qualify as experts on this matter.

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On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Matthew Copeland wrote:

>
> You know, that is one of the things that I have been kind of wondering
> about.  In a proprietary company, you have lwayers there partly to help
> cover your butt, but I haven't seen any with regards to FD.  Does anyone
> know whether we have access to law type people who can help us with these
> types of petty things?
>
> Matthew M. Copeland
>
>
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, John wrote:
>
> > Sounds like something similar I once read on the SAMBA site? No/Yes...
> > still it's a good idea and it has my vote in theory.
> >
> > The shared source part is especially important, but we'll need something
> > like:
> > >
> > Include in the header of your code "I certify under penalty of perjury
> > and the laws of my applicaBle state, district, commonwealth, country, or
> > planet of legal residence that I have not (blah blah blah) viewed any
> > source code directly related to this coding that is not distributed
> > under the GPL or a recognized compatible license."
> >
> > That's safest... some legal beagle correct me if I'm incorrect.
> >
> > John Le'Brecage
> >
> > Matthew Copeland wrote:
> >
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Special note
> > >
> > > If you have looked at Microsoft's implementation of .NET or their shared
> > > source code, you will not be able to contribute to Mono.
> > >
> > > Please, follow care when reading code
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > You know, I saw this on the ximian website for contributing to mono, and
> > > it could be very worthwhile to us to add something similar to our website,
> > > so that we don't get into any nasty situations with lawsuits from
> > > Microsoft.  We all konw how Microsoft tactics work when it comes to
> > > competitors.
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
> > >
> > > Matthew M. Copeland
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