A good lawyer can lay out convincing arguments for both sides of any proposition.
Fred
On Dec 10, 2005, at 1:09 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Andrew Gray wrote:
On 09/12/05, Matt Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
The problem as I see it is that the Wikimedia Foundation might not want to appear to be passing out legal advice to our contributors ...
Indeed. The WMF takes legal advice when it feels the need to take advice, as I understand it; when an active legal issue arises where we're doing something particularly wrong, Things Get Done With Emphasis, Underlined, In Parentheses And Quotated.
(or something like that)
Recall, for example, the missing-articles-in-Britannica list deletions...
Yes, I recall it, and if I recall correctly legal opinion was divided.
Ec
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