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

[David Sugar]

RMS can offer an ethical opinion, but he cannot offer a "legal" opinion on 
something.  I have met Moglen, who is certainly one of free software's 
greatest resources.  However, I have no idea whatsoever of what time and 
availability he would even have to help FD.  I am sure many of our issues do 
touch upon issues he currently handles for the FSF, and perhaps in that regard 
we might be able to share some things.  Finally, he does make what limited 
time he can to answer questions personally from people.  In particular, I am 
also concerned about the legal risks and needs in DotGNU to handle cleanly the 
development of a runtime implimentation and I would love it if we could have 
feedback from somebody like him on those issues.

David

Barry Fitzgerald wrote:

> 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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