On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:16:28 +0200 Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 11424 March 1977, Francesco Poli wrote: > > > Important disclaimers: IANAL, TINLA, IANADD, TINASOTODP. > > Those are *totally* and absolutely unimportant and a waste to write. > Could people please stop always writing them, its fairly clear by itself > that debian-legal does NOT do any lawyers work (and whatever else people > put into that crap). Its also absolutely unimportant if someone is a DD > or not, it doesnt matter at all, as people are writing their own opinion > about $stuff on the list, not that of Debian. I *used* to think that those disclaimers are implicit in most cases. But then, I was harshly accused of not making it clear enough that I am neither a lawyer, nor a Debian developer, that I'm not providing legal advice, and that I don't speak on behalf of the Debian Project. Other people were similarly attacked for the same reason. http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/10/msg00133.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/06/msg00014.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/06/msg00038.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/06/msg00092.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/06/msg00106.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/06/msg00222.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/06/msg00278.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/07/msg00062.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/07/msg00215.html As a consequence I began adding the disclaimers to my messages, in order to explicitly remind readers about the above facts. Now, you say that those disclaimers are a waste of time... I'm really puzzled. -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/index.html#nanodocs The nano-document series is here! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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