On 24 May 2016, Alessandro Rubini rubini@gnudd.com wrote:
Regardless of the interest of the question, Mentors.ln is not a new place to ask for legal advice (especially someone like Jeremiah [...]
Full ack.
Thanks malcolm. According to the invitation sent today, I would have directed Jeremiah to post it publicly, with a "you are not a novice" remark added.
Now, I have to ask Carlo for help. Will he refuse because I disagreed or will he feel bound to help so to show he didn't take this personally? Let me try, but tomorrow.
Not at all, the fact that I have hastily replied does not strike me as overruling this possibility.
Of course, once the cat is out of the bag, it's difficult to put it back, but on the other hand, that was a quick question, I felt it was too low level and obvious to deserve discussion in front of the general audience. I would myself have restrained a lot more, and would have been perhaps more elaborate if the question was for that forum. That was what I intended with it was a good question for mentoring, I meant this would have been too basic to disrupt the time of many busy lawyers who have to bother sending it to the trashbin.
On the other hand, Malcolm is right, Jeremiah should know better, and all in all, this was not a specific FOSS question, rather a fundamental copyright one, anybody in this list is supposed to know already, lawyer or non lawyer. The LN is a specialists' forum, not an educational one, that is for mentors. But mentors is for FOSS specifics.
Therefore, the choice being "this belongs here" and "this belongs nowhere here", I tend to think the exit point is not "this is for LN" but "sorry, this is the sort of non-FOSS specific that absent a volunteer [like Carlo] nobody should take, no offence meant".
my two cents, of course.
Carlo