[beyond-licensing] Legal topics that FOSS projects could use more information on

Stefano Zacchiroli zack at opensource.org
Wed Jun 15 12:45:37 UTC 2016


On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 08:36:18AM -0400, Richard Fontana wrote:
> On 06/15/2016 08:15 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > But that's kinda prove the point. We need resources explaining this
> > stuff to developers, because it's tricky and at the same time often gets
> > decided early on in the lifetime of a project.
> 
> Is the suggestion that explaining this stuff to developers requires us
> to take a neutral position on everything (thus pointing out pros and
> cons)?

That's certainly not my personal stance. I've hard time believing that
"neutral" positions are a thing in the first place. In this specific
case I'd definitely go for "copyright accumulation is bad because FOO ;
the only reason why you might want to consider is BAR".

But note that here we are moving in the realm of *guideline* for FOSS
projects. This thread was maybe about something else, i.e., explaining
how legal stuff of various kind works. Which might have contributed to
the (IMO wrong) impression that we need to be neutral in general as a
working group.

Cheers.
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