[License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: U.S. Army Research Laboratory Open Source License (ARL OSL) Version 0.4.1

[Lawrence Rosen]

Stephen Michael Kellat referred to his standard disclaimer at
<http://skellat.freeshell.org/blog/pages/about-this-blog.html>
http://skellat.freeshell.org/blog/pages/about-this-blog.html:

 

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On the other hand, my emails are usually signed and "licensed under
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If there is likely to be confusion that my words will be interpreted as
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on this email list, I add the following brief disclaimer:

 

"If this were legal advice it would have been accompanied by a bill."

 

I learned that email disclaimer from Mark Lemley, who knows more about
intellectual property law than anyone on this list. Such is the discussion
freedom of a college professor like Lemley or a small country lawyer like me
from the backwoods of California. You government lawyers give up too much
freedom to speak up.

 

Most of the rest of the attorney disclaimers on emails sent to most open
source discussion lists are just words that attorneys recite in church. Such
emails are effectively though not literally public domain, or at least their
ideas are.

 

At your suggestion, Stephen, I won't bother with a FOIA request "to the
government lawyers." :-)

 

/Larry

 

Lawrence Rosen

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-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Michael Kellat [mailto:smkellat at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 11:11 AM
To: license-discuss at opensource.org
Cc: lrosen at rosenlaw.com; license-discuss at opensource.org
Subject: Re: [License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: U.S. Army Research
Laboratory Open Source License (ARL OSL) Version 0.4.1

 

I am off-duty from my job over at Treasury today so I guess I can say
something.  Standard disclaimer incorporated by reference from presentation
here:  <http://skellat.freeshell.org/blog/pages/about-this-blog.html>
http://skellat.freeshell.org/blog/pages/about-this-blog.html

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