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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. Too late. by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    IBM could have used these guys against SCO and saved a fortune.

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  2. 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.

  3. 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/ )