The problem is that I do get around a lot and have done work for a surprising number of people over the past couple of years. I do kinda get lost remembering whose hat I'm wearing. On occasion I meddle in tax law at work having to help taxpayers figure things out. Disclaimers like that are the price I pay for having a pay check working for the US Treasury.
Of course, while everybody was responding I was having a lovely chat with the Office of Special Counsel about the Hatch Act on my day off. I have to get back to drafting an OSC-13 referral. On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 11:57:03 -0800 "Lawrence Rosen" <lro...@rosenlaw.com> wrote: > Stephen Michael Kellat referred to his standard disclaimer at > <http://skellat.freeshell.org/blog/pages/about-this-blog.html> > http://skellat.freeshell.org/blog/pages/about-this-blog.html: > > > > About this blog > > This site does not reflect the opinions, views, or official actions > of any of the following entities: > > The United States Government > > Any agency or instrumentality of the United States Government > > Canonical, Limited > > The State of Ohio > > Any agency or instrumentality of the State of Ohio > > Lakeland Community College > > West Avenue Church of Christ or any operational function thereof > > The organizing team for the Music Along The River festival > > The Ashtabula County Metroparks Board > > Others potentially yet to be mentioned > > The views herein are solely those of the author. > > > > On the other hand, my emails are usually signed and "licensed under > CC-BY-4.0" with permission to "please copy freely." > > > > If there is likely to be confusion that my words will be interpreted > as attorney-advice rather than merely conversational like everyone > else's words on this email list, I add the following brief disclaimer: > > > > "If this were legal advice it would have been accompanied by a bill." > > > > I learned that email disclaimer from Mark Lemley, who knows more about > intellectual property law than anyone on this list. Such is the > discussion freedom of a college professor like Lemley or a small > country lawyer like me from the backwoods of California. You > government lawyers give up too much freedom to speak up. > > > > Most of the rest of the attorney disclaimers on emails sent to most > open source discussion lists are just words that attorneys recite in > church. Such emails are effectively though not literally public > domain, or at least their ideas are. > > > > At your suggestion, Stephen, I won't bother with a FOIA request "to > the government lawyers." :-) > > > > /Larry > > > > Lawrence Rosen > > Rosenlaw (www.rosenlaw.com) > > 3001 King Ranch Rd., Ukiah, CA 95482 > > Cell: 707-478-8932 > > > > This email is licensed under CC-BY-4.0. Please copy freely. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen Michael Kellat [mailto:smkel...@yahoo.com] > Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 11:11 AM > To: license-discuss@opensource.org > Cc: lro...@rosenlaw.com; license-discuss@opensource.org > Subject: Re: [License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: U.S. Army Research > Laboratory Open Source License (ARL OSL) Version 0.4.1 > > > > I am off-duty from my job over at Treasury today so I guess I can say > something. Standard disclaimer incorporated by reference from > presentation here: > <http://skellat.freeshell.org/blog/pages/about-this-blog.html> > http://skellat.freeshell.org/blog/pages/about-this-blog.html > > [<LER>] <snip> > _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org https://lists.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
