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

Nigel T nigel.2048 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 3 22:54:31 UTC 2018


My defense is Larry wrote that part as it’s in the original license. :)

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> On Oct 3, 2018, at 6:52 PM, Smith, McCoy <mccoy.smith at intel.com> wrote:
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>>> 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/
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