Licensing question

[Raffaello Giulietti]

Thomas, Sidharth, Christian,

thanks for your sensible and up to the point understanding of the intent
of my original post.

And thanks, Thomas and Christian, for pointing me to useful information.
That was helpful.


Greetings
Raffaello


On 2016-10-01 10:28, Thomas Wuerthinger wrote:
> Sidharth,
> 
> Thanks for your mail. I absolutely agree with you.
> 
> In general, any question related to the project is welcome on the Graal mailing list. Graal team members will never view such a question as a waste of time :).
> 
> - thomas
> 
> 
>> On 01 Oct 2016, at 08:15, Sidharth Kshatriya <sid.kshatriya at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 4:26 AM, dalibor topic <dalibor.topic at oracle.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> [...]
>>> On a technical mailing list, typically none of the participants,
>>> regardless who happens to be their employer, are qualified to provide
>>> opinions on legal matters in any jurisdiction.
>>>
>>> Qualification is not a matter of feelings.
>>>
>>> For many professions, such as the legal one, it's matter of local formal
>>> education and local certification.
>>>
>>>
>> You're absolutely correct in what you say. But, if you read Raffaello's
>> original question he says, "[...] I'm just looking for unbinding opinions,
>> not legal advice."
>>
>> After many years of woking with various licenses and open source projects,
>> some developers do build an (amateur) understanding of licenses and
>> copyright. I think Raffaello was hoping for some non-formal help in that
>> sense -- which he did get from mailing list participants. There were some
>> very useful responses and Raffaello seemed to indicate that his question
>> was answered.
>>
>> Contacting a lawyer qualified in intellectual property law (and familiar
>> with open source licensing) to give a legal opinion on a licensing query
>> is, of course, the correct and appropriate approach and it is for Raffaello
>> to make that determination whether he needs to go down that route.
>>
>> My intention was also to suggest that open source projects like yours
>> *will* get the occasional licensing question. Developers send licensing
>> questions to technical mailing lists because these technical mailings lists
>> are practically the only forums where people understand the *specific*
>> software stack in detail to be able to give an (informal) answer.
>> Additionally, in many cases legal firms may end up giving very generic
>> advice as they don't have a deep technical understanding of the specific
>> software stack (unless you're will to pay top dollar for lawyers who may
>> have some software/engineering backgrounds).
>>
>> Essentially, how you guys wish to deal with licensing questions is totally
>> your prerogative but answering those questions in this mailing list (with
>> the usual disclaimers) or kindly pointing people to practical, inexpensive
>> resources elsewhere will only help your project grow.
>>
>> Sidharth
>