[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Pier Fumagalli wrote: > > Sylvain Wallez 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.
Actually the legalese does make it difficult for committers in one way. I sometimes need to drag *.java cvs commit email messages out of the spam bucket. SpamAssassin has put them in there because of the "lines_of_yelling". Why is it that these legal documents and *.java headers need to use all uppercase characters? Is this just a silly trend? Surely the same text in lowercase would still be legal. --David --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
