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Tasks of a Free Software Legal Department

Posted by Soulskill on from the right-ways-and-wrong-ways dept.

H4x0r Jim Duggan writes "For anyone curious about what the legal department in a free software organisation does, I spent some time with my co-worker in FSFE and have put a summary online with the status of the main projects: developing a legal network, producing documentation, GPL enforcement, copyright consolidation, and training courses."

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  1. Cash for lawyers? by mbstone · · Score: 1, Interesting

    OK, tell me how I As A Lawyer can make money off of GPL violators.

  2. Some of this is pretty interesting... by ruin20 · · Score: 2, Interesting
    like the FLA-Fiduciary License Agreement

    I didn't know that you could do that... A developer can legally supply another entity enforcement rights of their license agreement, as well as the right to modify it. I could see this being useful for a small developers supplying FLA's to the EFF for example.

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  3. Eclipse Lawyers by aniefer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    At the Eclipse Foundation, I believe the lawyer types spend most of their time doing due-diligence on contributions coming into the project.