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Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > Marc Perkel wrote: > >> Linus, >> >> For what it's worth, maybe you should run some of these issues past >> the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org) or Robin Gross at >> IPJustice.org who might be able to review these issues and help make >> sure you're doing it right. > > > Great advice, however, the EFF are not experts in IP law. I would > suggest a good firm in Palo Alto, like Rosati, Goodrich and Sonsini, > they are experts > in corporate IP law and Corporate law in general. They would know all > the loopholes people and companies are likely to use. Stay away from > these > freebie Law Groups who are more likely to kiss your butt and tell you > waht you want to hear rather than what you NEED to hear. > OSDL should pick up the tab. It will cost around 30K for a good > analysis from them. > > Jeff > Actually EFF does have some good IP lawyers on staff and Robin Gross - a former EFF employee (robin@ipjustice.org) is also very up on this. And the prices is right too if you don't want to spend the big bucks. I would rather get legal advice from lawyer who care about GPL than lawyers who just want to run up a big fee and screw you in the end. It might be worth looking into doing it right before some other SCO type decides they can get rich by busting Linux. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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