Lawrence Rosen scripsit: > We attorneys here will try to convince your attorneys of that if > they consent to speak to us. You engineers should not volunteer to > be translators in that discussion, but listen in. And we attorneys > should speak candidly about copyright and contract law. Several of > us are specialists, and several here have already volunteered to have > that legal chat with your counsel.
If lawyers talked to other lawyers, they might end up changing their minds, and that would never do. "[M]uch enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an _attorney_'." --Boswell's Life of Johnson :-) -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan co...@ccil.org Being understandable rather than obscurantist poses certain risks, in that one's opinions are clear and therefore falsifiable in the light of new data, but it has the advantage of encouraging feedback from others. --James A. Matisoff _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org https://lists.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss