[License-review] For Approval: Convertible Free Software License, Version 1.1 (C-FSL v1.1)

[Smith, McCoy]

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Subject: Re: [License-review] For Approval: Convertible Free Software License, Version 1.1 (C-FSL v1.1)

>>I believe that “shall” in legal terms means “has a duty to”.  Perhaps it should be “must”.  

For legal draftspersons of a certain particularity, "shall" is a term which has become ubiquitous in legal drafting, but that is also hopelessly vague or subject to dual contradictory meaning.  The editor of Black's Legal Dictionary is on a personal quest to scrub it from the legal lexicon:  http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/shall_we_abandon_shall/