In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Pier Fumagalli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 21/1/03 19:54, "Sylvain Wallez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >... >> Cool ! But why does this legal speech have be so hard to understand ? > > Unfortunately, the Apache Software Foundation is a legal corporation, > and therefore, for all its official proceedings, we need to use that > kind of language... > > I don't think you'll find any of the ASF members (me included) liking > that kind of "formalism", but unfortunately those are official documents > of an official corporation, and there's not much you can do (if we wrote > it for coders, lawyers then wouldn't be able to read them)...
Yup. And thankfully, the only people that really need to deal with the stuff is the ASF Board. Periodically, it "reaches out", but mostly the project committers can simply ignore the stuff. The real goal is that the ASF exists to deal with these legal issues, and free up the coders to do what they do best: create great, free code. Cheers, -g -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... ASF Chairman ... http://www.apache.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
