On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 03:01:37PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Andrew Suffield writes: > >here. You don't have to be an attorney to understand the law, only to > >practice it. > > But it's a great help in terms of understanding the meanings of lots > of the *legal* license terms that are bandied about. And how they > might be applied in court, with precedent. And in this case > professional training is much more important than in the others you > named IMHO.
My only issue with this line of argument is that this is a volunteer project. If we don't have volunteer lawyers to do this work for us, we make due with what we've got, the same way we do everything else. - David Nusinow