Thinking about FOSS, legal advice, and pro bono legal support.
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@annehargreaves @mikarv Law clinics are amazing, and take a lot of supervision!
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Yes, sure, finding specialist lawyers can be challenging.
We do exist, but there are not a lot of us.
I help a range of projects, of different sizes, and I don't agree that only big projects can benefit from legal advice.
@neil Of course not, legal advice is meant to be for everybody, but speaking from experience, most legal matters flew over our heads before we got (more or less
) organized into an org. The project was really just a github repo and an amount of people working on it but not really legally responsible nor willing to be. But maybe indeed that's a grey zone that would do better if some support or consultancy was available -
It would depend on how many projects wanted how much legal advice, really!
@neil
Do you see it working like a FLOSS legal grant fund or more of an organisation that has lawyers on staff that work for the various projects that apply for help?
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