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On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Anthony G. Basile |
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<basile@××××××××××××××.edu> wrote: |
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> Hence we should get legal council here. |
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> Legal council is advise on what reasons fly in the courts. |
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> I don't want to play a guessing game. Are you against getting legal advise |
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> on this question? |
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Asked and answered. :) |
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On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Anthony G. Basile |
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> <basile@××××××××××××××.edu> wrote: |
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>> It is not unreasonable to request legal council at this |
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>> point so that we are better informed. |
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> By all means do so. If there is some kind of legal precedent for any |
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> of this I'm all ears. |
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I'm pretty skeptical that anything strong will be found, but I'm not |
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opposed to asking. Lawyers aren't really the last word though, and |
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they tend to be risk-averse. If we stopped distributing Gentoo |
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entirely then we'd be less likely to be sued for copyright violation, |
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for example. So, I wouldn't avoid something simply because of a |
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hypothetical risk - risk needs to be weighed against benefit. |
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On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Anthony G. Basile |
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<basile@××××××××××××××.edu> wrote: |
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> Contract are not just limited to software. |
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I'm not sure I claimed that they are. I already said that if we were |
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spending Gentoo money on services like Github it might be more |
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problematic because arguably the contributors did not intend for the |
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money to be spent in that manner. On the other hand, contributions |
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made after we made some announcement that we're officially using |
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Github would arguably not be as much of a problem, since contributors |
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would have had access to this information before they contributed. |
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In any case, I think that we should be concerned about the Social |
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Contract because that is a big part of what we're about. I suspect |
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we're already being a lot harder on ourselves than any court is likely |
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to be. Look at how a typical big US non-profit like the Red Cross |
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spends its money and try to tell me with a straight face that we're |
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doing a worse job of adhering to our mission. |
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Rich |
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