Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> wrote on 05/14/2013 04:38:18 PM:
The way I think about it is that Foundation employees, the Foundation's legal counsel, members of the Legal Affairs Committee etc. are all genuinely very welcome to give their perspective on issues like this. That's what this mailing list is for. The project wants help from anyone who can give it.
However, ultimately the project itself will have to come to a rough consensus position on this based on everyone's input and act upon that.
The way you phrased your question suggests the project should explicitly ask the Foundation for legal advice, then stop and wait until their counsel replies and, finally, act upon the advice of counsel.
I can imagine scenarios where we might need to take such a course, but this certainly isn't one of them IMHO.
Mark, while my painful personal experience says "get a policy in place!", I'll defer to the project's consensus of course.