Re: [Fsfe-uk] Sep 27th will be GNU's 25th anniversary

[Alex Hudson]

On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 15:37 +0100, Shane Martin Coughlan wrote:
> Alex Hudson wrote:
> > I think I mentioned on this list previously that one London lawyer who
> > is well-known within the field of FLOSS licensing has a number of
> > clients effectively bypassing the copyleft of the GPLv2, because he
> > believes it to be unenforceable in UK law and is advising them as such.
> 
> Who is this?

I don't think I can attribute the statement to him, because the meeting
was under Chatham House rules IIRC, but there aren't many lawyers in
London who specialise in these licenses. I certainly don't know who the
clients he referred to are, though.

This meeting was the BCS OSSG meeting on a new license, and I wrote
notes on that meeting to this list at the time (25th July, 2007 -
according to the archive, you even read them ;) - I didn't name him then
either, so I assume my memory about the meeting rules is/was correct.
Other members of this list were there also, though, and can correct me
if they dare :o>

Cheers,

Alex.