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On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 16:42 -0500, Mark Brown wrote:
> 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.

"Get a policy in place" on how to deal with questions such as this?

Or "get a policy in place" for copyright headers?

If the former, "take to legal-discuss, form consensus, have e.g. a TC
vote if necessary, document in the FAQ" is basically the policy

If the latter, coming up with that policy is exactly what's happening on
this thread

Cheers,
Mark.