Re: Legal Lojban

[xod <xod@bway.net>]

On Sun, 24 Oct 1999 reciproc@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote:

> One thing I suggested was that we use Lojban for the official licence, and
> then translate it unofficially into English, the way the Free Saftware
> Foundation does with GNU. So, we were wondering:
> 	1) Whether it is in fact legal to use such a little-spoken
> language as Lojban for this purpose, and
> 	2) Whether we have to get a lawyer to write the stuff anyway lest
> we be arrested for practicing law without a licence.



It's legal, and it's also legal to write your own legal contracts (in the
US) but you might be surprised what loopholes a lawyer might be able to
find and exploit in such an amateur document. Law is arcane and illogical.
I would pay a real lawyer to do it right, and if he screws up you have
somebody to sue.




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