On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 10:22:30AM +0100, Gervase Markham wrote: > Sean Kellogg wrote: > >Francesco... as I've said on this list before, "IANAL" is not a > >sufficient disclaimer. Nor is saying "this is not legal advice." There > >are laws, criminal laws, against the providing of legal advice by those > >who not certified by the Bar Association within the jurisdiction the > >advice is given in.
> Are you familiar enough with the laws of Italy (where Francesco appears > to reside) to state that there are such laws which apply to him? Francesco isn't giving advice to people in Italy, he's giving advice to people on debian-legal as a whole. Given that unlicensed legal advice is a criminal matter as Sean mentions, there is more to be concerned about than his local laws. > Does this line of argument mean that when I watch "Boston Legal", and > decide to follow the advice some of those (fictional) lawyers gave their > clients, I can sue the program when it all goes wrong, because the word > "Legal" in the name gave me a reasonable expectation that they were > providing "legal advice"? No, because nobody in Boston Legal is advising you the watcher to do anything. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]