[triage] Re: For Approval: Boost Software License - Version 1.0 - August 17th, 2003

[Zak Greant]

Hey Chris, Greetings All,

On Oct 12, 2007, at 14:47PDT (CA), Chris Travers wrote:
> I would add to Rick's excellent points that when a legal issue goes
> poorly, "qualified legal advice" is no surety, nor is malpractice
> recourse easy to come by.  Thus while everyone needs to seek legal
> advice and sometimes even representation where appropriate, these
> matters should not be delegated to lawyers without us laymen doing our
> part to grapple with, understand, debate, etc. legal questions.
>
> In short while we *all* should seek to understand the issues as best
> we can, we should *also* seek legal help where appropriate.  Approving
> a license may require some judgement and discretion about legal
> matters, but so does every other element of life, from as driving a
> car to representing yourself in court (whether for a traffic ticket or
> in a pro se case).
>
> Licenses are not legal advice.  They are legal documents.  We are not
> approving them as legally sound.  We are approving them as meeting a
> certain standard as to what rights they purport to grant.

Nothing to ticket here for now.

Bundling this (and after consideration, Rick's previous message) up  
as a part of
   https://osi.osuosl.org/wiki/issues/license-approval-process

Cheers!
--zak