[Fsfe-uk] Someone to write about Legal issues

[Alex McLintock]

Hi folks,

I'm going to spend some time after the end of my current contract to put 
together the skeleton of a book
about Open Source and Free Software aimed at managers and company directors.

I am reasonably happy that I know about most of the issues from a business 
point of view, or know
people to ask, but one thing missing is the legal opinion.

I can describe in laymans terms the differences between the GPL, LGPL, 
Apache SL, and perl's artistic license
but I am wondering whether I need this chapter to be written by a lawyer.

Since there would be almost no profit in this book I can't imagine that any 
expert lawyer would want to
help out for free. I know at least one legal academic who may be able to help.

Any ideas folks?

(And yes there will be a section on why Free Software and Open Source 
Software are slightly different :-)

Alex McLintock