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On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 15:43 -0600, Daniel Robbins wrote: |
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> That's why I'd recommend that *you guys* (the trustees) actually write the |
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> legal documentation, and simply use your new legal counsel to ensure that |
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> what you have written is legal and sufficiently comprehensive. Working the |
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> other way (explaining to a lawyer how the Gentoo project works, then asking |
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> them to write an appropriate legal document) is not very effective, and I'd |
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> expect this to be the case even if Lawrence Lessig himself were writing the |
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> document. The lawyer will not have sufficient understanding of the |
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> particular needs of Gentoo. The trustees have the experience necessary to |
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> write a comprehensive document. Someone unfamiliar with the Gentoo project |
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> does not. |
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I am checking with [Redacted] to make sure that the document is availble |
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for us to make revisions to it before it becomes "official". I doubt |
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that her firm will have problems with this request, but I am just making |
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sure. |
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> You know what the document is supposed to do - and if in some areas you do |
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> not, it is ultimately you who must decide what it is supposed to do anyway, |
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> not the lawyer's. The lawyer's job should be to make sure that the document |
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> holds legal water. |
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That is what we are going to try and do :) |
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> Anyway, that's my 2 cents :) |
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Thanks for your input Daniel! It always helps to have someone with |
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pertinent experience to offer input. |
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Regards, |
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John Davis |
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Release Engineering |
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Gentoo Linux Developer/ Manager/ Trustee |
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