On Mon, 31 Jan 2022 10:07:32 +0100, Stephan Lachnit <stephanlach...@debian.org> wrote: >On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 8:35 PM Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: >> I do think that the amount of effort that the project puts into this >> pre-screening is of sufficiently high magnitude that it would be worth >> paying a lawyer for a legal opinion about whether or not we need to do >> it. The savings to the project if we found out that we didn't, or that we >> could do something simpler and more easily automated, would be more than >> the cost of the legal opinion. > >Looking at the last financial numbers I found [1], we have at least >~750k USD we could use for this purpose. I don't really know how >expensive lawyers are, but I doubt that this would cost more than 10k. >Heck, we could even hire two lawyers without any significant financial >impact (maybe in the US and EU as I think these are probably the most >prominent areas for potential copyright lawsuits), even if it costs >50k.
Even if a lawyer says A, it doesn't buy us anything if J Robert DD gets sued and the judge says B, or "not A". Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834