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New Legal Center for Open Source Projects

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the fighting-the-good-fight dept.

NW writes "According to a News.com story well known OSS lawyers Lawrence Lessig and Eben Moglen are launching a new "Software Freedom Legal Center" to assist open source developers with legal issues for free." You can view the website at Softwarefreedom.org.

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  1. It's a great start by winkydink · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Though I cannot see how much trial work a staff of 4 will be able to handle. One major suit could tie them all up.

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    1. Re:It's a great start by Wordsmith · · Score: 3, Insightful

      At least if there's a major suit, there's now a dedicated staff of four to help. When America sees a DVD-Jon, these guys could come in handy.

    2. Re:It's a great start by john_anderson_ii · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I'm not really in the know when it comes to leagal offices, but in the medical profession there are a small army of nurses, technicians, and residents for every doctor on staff. It's probably the same thing on the law side.

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  2. what about by mottie · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "to assist open source developers with legal issues for free"

    now all we need is someone that work for free to go after people that abuse the GPL

    ie: Sveasoft (http://slashdot.org/~Featureless/journal/ )

  3. Re:Public Domain by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Exactly...

    PD is true freedom, it's true generosity, it's true love of the art, it's true advancement of the science.

    GPL is still working for free, yet making your code to hard to use as to scare most people away from touching it.

    Even if you are writing code 10 lib levels away from some tiny GPLed thing that you didn't even know about, you are still infected. Developing code on Linux is a lot like a doctor working on an ebola patient. No matter how careful you are, you stand a good chance of succuming.