[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Pier Fumagalli"Don't take my rant seriously, guys. That was just a joke.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 21/1/03 19:54, "Sylvain Wallez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Yup.
wrote:
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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)...
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.
I know that legal people speech is very different from "normal" speech. But I wish they all have read Cluetrain [1]...
Sylvain
[1] http://www.cluetrain.com
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