Announcement: Free Software Law dicussion list created

As a followup to a free software law summit hosted by Bruce Perens of HP September, 2001, a mailing list to address issues of free software legal issues has been created, fsl-discuss[_at_]lists.alt.org.

This list satisfies an unmet need within the free software community. While there are discussions oriented toward specific legal issues such as the OSI's license-discuss submissions review list, Free-Sklyarov list and DVD-discuss, and there are general discussions for free software and free software business, and there are general IP issues lists such as CNI-Copyright, there is no discussion that focusses on general legal aspects of free software.

So we've created fsl-discuss.

The list charter is: Legal issues concerning free software.

This includes: licensing (in a general sense, specific issues of, say, OSI certification should be directed to the OSI license-discuss list), patent, trademark, legislation, standards, international treaties, and other aspects of law. The list is intended for general discussion.

For further information, to subscribe, or to view archives, see:

							       
    http://lists.alt.org/mailman/listinfo/fsl-discuss          

List moderator and hosts are Karsten M. Self and Drew Streib.

Karsten is a long-time active member of the free software and GNU/Linux communities, who's been involved in numerous discussions, panels, publications, and presentations of legal issues.

Drew is a cofounder of SourceForge.net, a member of the Free Standards Group (http://www.freestandards.org/), Linux International, and other organizations and activities.

Thanks to Drew for providing hosting services for FSL-Discuss.

Thank you.

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