On 2/28/2020 3:31 PM, Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY CCDC ARL (USA) via License-discuss wrote: > My memory on this is **very** fuzzy, and the details were explained in > somewhat technical legal jargon, so if I get this wrong, please forgive me. > There was some kind of issue involving giving what could be construed as > legal advice to someone that wasn't their client (the US Government). For > some reason, talking to other lawyers solved the issue. I recall this too, so it seems my earlier email about a proxy may have been where you were the proxy! I find this kind of hilarious, but maybe government lawyers don't have the same sense of humor I do. There are many lawyers on the list and we all walk the line about whether we're providing legal advice, IANYL and all. The hilarity is that we negotiate licenses with others, lawyers and non-lawyers, all the time and there are no secrets and no privilege when you're talking to an opposing party. Yes, what you say may ultimately (in the rare case) come back to bite you if the license is litigated, but that's true in a one-on-one negotiation too. The only difference here is that the discussion is publicly available (which is generally not the case in a private negotiation) and there are A LOT of people on the other side.
Pam (comments my own, not OSI) Pamela S. Chestek Chestek Legal PO Box 2492 Raleigh, NC 27602 919-800-8033 pam...@chesteklegal.com www.chesteklegal.com _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@lists.opensource.org http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org
