<div dir="ltr"><span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 7:48 AM Bruce Perens via License-discuss <<a href="mailto:license-discuss@lists.opensource.org" target="_blank">license-discuss@lists.opensource.org</a>> wrote:</div></span>> This may be an emerging best practice, but it's certainly not ubiquitous practice amongst U.S. legal professionals.<br><div><br></div><div>I have worked very extensively with lawyers, and have come to the conclusion that although a lot of them have spent a great deal of time and work on education, that there are some really good lawyers out there, but the average is not terrific in quality. And a good many hate their jobs and that shows too. One really great lawyer that I work with brought up this issue years ago. If you find a great one, nurture them.</div><div><br></div><div> </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 10:48 AM Aaron Williamson <aaron@williamson.legal> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 7:48 AM Bruce Perens via License-discuss <<a href="mailto:license-discuss@lists.opensource.org" target="_blank">license-discuss@lists.opensource.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">The word "SHALL" must not be used in a license. Please replace all occurrences of "SHALL" with "MUST" and see <a href="https://www.plainlanguage.gov/guidelines/conversational/shall-and-must/" target="_blank">https://www.plainlanguage.gov/guidelines/conversational/shall-and-must/</a> for the reasons you must do so.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>I am assuming you are not a legal professional, I think one would not have missed that issue by now.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>This may be an emerging best practice, but it's certainly not ubiquitous practice amongst U.S. legal professionals. On the contrary, my experience is that "shall" is still more commonly used, regardless of the type of legal document in question.<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Bruce Perens K6BP</div></div></div></div>