Comments on: A question for Luis or other lawyer-like people who are open source advocates

By: Karl Lattimer

Karl Lattimer — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 09:02:33 +0000

“This is more of a hacker’s desire to understand the rules that govern the world around him”

What I think would be really helpful here is if someone, a lawyer type, put together a guide of what to do and what not to do, a sort of open source hackers guide to the laws that can screw us up.

By: simo

simo — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:21:20 +0000

Yesterday I was very lucky to attend the SFLC’s Legal Summit for Software Freedom [http://www.softwarefreedom.org/summit/] in New York.
At the conference a nice pamphlet named “A Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and Free Software Projects” (Version 1.0) was distributed to particiants.
If I understood correctly this work will be made available on SFLC’s website [http://www.softwarefreedom.org] soon. That document is exactly what you are looking for. Keep an eye on their website.

By: J5

J5 — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:00:02 +0000

Typos fixed.

By: Ray

Ray — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 21:45:10 +0000

It looks like the only lawyer-like people who ware going to reply are language lawyers.

That’s a bit of a shame, because you bring up a good point in your post that trademarks have to be defended by the trademark owners and in contrast everyone but patent owners have to defend themselves against patents.

Too many OCD, pedantic types out there I guess.

By: jpl

jpl — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 21:06:04 +0000

s/lawyer like people/lawyer-like people/
s/obious/obvious/
s/obiousness/obviousness/
s/pattent/patent/
s/is little resources/are few resources/
s/descussion/discussion/
s/activily/actively/

By: fraggle

fraggle — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:32:08 +0000

Dude! Don’t type so fast!

By: mr. obious

mr. obious — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 18:55:40 +0000

The first time, I thought it was a typo.

The second time, I asked myself if you’ve been saying “obious” your whole life.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=obvious