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Mark McLoughlin <markmc at 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.