As a side note to this, Drew Streib is an ex-VA employee, and an all-around very cool & smart guy. I knew him when he worked at VA, and he was always a great guy to be with.
--- Douglas J Hunley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > Subject: [linux-elitists] Announcement: FSL-discuss list created > Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 12:11:52 -0800 > From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Linux Elitists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > As a followup to a free software law summit hosted by Bruce Perens of > HP > September, 2001, a mailing list to address issues of free software > legal issues has been created, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This list satisfies an unmet need within the free software community. > While there are discussions oriented toward specific legal issues such > as the OSI's license-discuss submissions review list, Free-Sklyarov > list > and DVD-discuss, and there are general discussions for free software > and free software business, there is no discussion that focusses on > general legal aspects of free software. > > So we've created fsl-discuss. > > The list charter is: Legal issues concerning free software. > > This includes: licensing (in a general sense, specific issues of, say, > OSI certification should be directed to the OSI license-discuss list), > patent, trademark, legislation, standards, international treaties, and > other aspects of law. The list is intended for general discussion. > > For further information, to subscribe, or to view archives, see: > > http://lists.alt.org/mailman/listinfo/fsl-discuss > > > List moderator and hosts are Karsten M. Self and Drew Streib. > > Karsten is a long-time active member of the free software and > GNU/Linux > communities, who's been involved in numerous discussions, panels, > publications, and presentations of legal issues. > > Drew is a cofounder of SourceForge.net, a member of the Free Standards > Group (http://www.freestandards.org/), Linux International, and other > organizations and activities. > > Thanks to Drew for providing hosting services for FSL-Discuss. ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
