From xod@xxxx.xxxx Sun Oct 24 14:28:59 1999 X-Digest-Num: 265 Message-ID: <44114.265.1435.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 17:28:59 -0400 (EDT) From: xod 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. ----- Perpetual Progress, Self-Transformation, Practical Optimism, Intelligent Technology, Open Society, Self-Direction, and Rational Thinking. http://extropy.com/