On 09/04/2008, Tom Holden <thomas.holden(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I have a friend who's qualified as a barrister who
may be interested in
helping out, but he wants to know in more detail what kind of problems you
envisage wanting his help with. (I'm sorry if this was obvious from the
foundation-l discussion, I unsubscribed in despair at the volume of nonsense
that list generates these days.)
Everything and anything, really - that's one of the reasons paying
someone would be better than a volunteer (once we have the funds to do
that). Mainly I expect it would be how UK copyright and libel laws
affect Wikimedia projects. The current discussion on foundation-l is
about the fact that Wikipedia is licensed under GFDL version 1.2 *or
later* and there are suggestions that such "or later" clauses aren't
valid in some jurisdictions. It would be useful to have someone able
to advise the foundation/community on whether they're valid in the UK.