lawyer

[Graham Seaman <graham@collector.hscs.wmin.ac.uk>]

> > 
> > The other thing you need is to recognize that you have to start
> > working with a lawyer now, not later.  Before you can usefully write
> > drafts of licenses you need to have lawyer explain the principles they
> > have to be based on.  You need to work with a lawyer at every stage.
> > That is how I wrote the GPL.
> > 
> 	I couldn't agree more, but the problem is how? We have no
> centralised community yet and nearly all of us have no access to lawyers
> (mostly for finacial reasons).
> 
> 	Cheers Adam
> 
There is a patent lawyer reading the openip list, who has been happy
to give opinions. There is another patent lawyer who reads the license-discuss
mailing list (not this list) who has also offered some opinions. Of
course opinions by email is not the same as paid legal backing, but
it helps. 
One thing I will try to do is collate all the relevant comments from
them and ask them if they're happy for me to put them on the web pages
somewhere. Not today tho - no time for now.

Graham