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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."

3 of 24 comments (clear)

  1. spell checker by avandesande · · Score: 3, Funny

    lawyers always use a spell checker

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  2. meh. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    IAAL and most of the time i'm doing contracts with vendors, NDAs, drafting letters, articles of incorp amendments , etc etc. thats what most legal departments do irrespective of whether it is a free software or closed source. the work is the same and its all corporate legal work.
    we dont do training courses or setting up networks. wtf does that have to do with legal work ?
     

  3. Huh, that's funny. by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    I thought all they did was verify that those Linux ISOs we see on PirateBay has the source code tree included.

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