On Nov 1, 2010, at 5:13 PM, Crista Lopes wrote: > On 11/1/2010 2:58 PM, Karen Palen wrote: >> >> Is that advice documented somewhere? >> > > Whatever the original legal advice was, it resulted in the current rules > described here: > http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Contributions_Policy > > For the past year or so, we have been consulting informally with a lawyer > based in San Diego who is very much inside the issues. When we inquired about > relaxing the restrictive rules, including the 6-month quarantine, he > reinforced the need for those rules. > > We don't have a formal engagement with this lawyer yet, because the project > is not an official organization, and none of us is acting on its behalf. So > his advice has been informal, including a disclaimer in his emails saying > "This is not legal advice," and his choosing which questions to answer. Hence > it's not appropriate to make his emails public. People here should feel free > to consult with your own lawyers, formally or informally, and find out what > they say about these issues. > > Based on what we heard from him, it looks like all core devs have now come to > the conclusion that the only route away from the current restrictions is to > form a non-profit and have that be the umbrella for all these legal issues, > including engaging with this lawyer officially. Once documents can be signed > officially, things can potentially become a lot cleaner and a lot less > restrictive -- the right way.
>From what I understand of GPL the lawyer is being much too over cautious on >the GPL viewer part. It isn't so viral that just having studied GPLed code >makes one bound to GPL. That would defeat much of the purpose of free >software. IANAL but that part is nearly MS level FUD. - s
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