Re: [Fwd: [DotGNU]A good warning?] and Do we have any law people around for FD?

[Matthew Copeland]

You know, that is one of the things that I have been kind of wondering
about.  In a proprietary company, you have lwayers there partly to help
cover your butt, but I haven't seen any with regards to FD.  Does anyone
know whether we have access to law type people who can help us with these
types of petty things?

Matthew M. Copeland


On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, John wrote:

> Sounds like something similar I once read on the SAMBA site? No/Yes...
> still it's a good idea and it has my vote in theory.
> 
> The shared source part is especially important, but we'll need something
> like:
> > 
> Include in the header of your code "I certify under penalty of perjury
> and the laws of my applicaBle state, district, commonwealth, country, or
> planet of legal residence that I have not (blah blah blah) viewed any
> source code directly related to this coding that is not distributed
> under the GPL or a recognized compatible license."
>  
> That's safest... some legal beagle correct me if I'm incorrect.
> 
> John Le'Brecage
> 
> Matthew Copeland wrote:
> 
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Special note
> >
> > If you have looked at Microsoft's implementation of .NET or their shared
> > source code, you will not be able to contribute to Mono.
> >
> > Please, follow care when reading code
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > You know, I saw this on the ximian website for contributing to mono, and
> > it could be very worthwhile to us to add something similar to our website,
> > so that we don't get into any nasty situations with lawsuits from
> > Microsoft.  We all konw how Microsoft tactics work when it comes to
> > competitors.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Matthew M. Copeland
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