On 09/04/2008, Tom Holden thomas.holden@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.