On 19/11/2012 09:02, Greg KH wrote: > I'm curious as to why this is? Didn't you learn about this in school > (if you went to school for software development), or from any company > you have worked for? At numerous companies I have worked for, it was > part of the "introduction to company FOO, here's your legal training on > what to do and not to do with regards to open source." _ANY_ company > dealing with Linux should have this type of thing in place, otherwise, > as I have found out first hand, it can get you in big trouble.
I can only speak for my personal experience, but that hasn't been the case. Even though I didn't continue with my university in Italy, I don't remember any copyright law course at least when I was supposed to be there. And even though in high school I was studying as a programmer, we only had very basic "law" classes in the first two years (common to non-programmers) and none in the final three. As for companies I worked for — no, not really. Actually at least at one of them I was the one introducing them to the complexity of license handling (with a final "you better call a lawyer up" note, for obvious reasons). So no, I'd venture to say that it's not as common as you seem to expect, which yes, is appalling. -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
