gEDA-dev: Newbie developer guidelines.

[Svenn Are Bjerkem]

On 4/26/07, DJ Delorie <dj at delorie.com> wrote:
>
> > Is this mailinglist is from now on free as in beer, but not free as
> > in speech?
>
> This mailing list is, and always has been, a private non-government
> forum.  Therefor, the usual "Free speech!" defense DOES NOT APPLY to
> things you say in this forum; the law just doesn't apply here.  That
> doesn't mean we discourage open communications, it does mean that
> there are some things that we are going to ask you to not discuss
> here.  One obvious example is off-topic posts, like politics or
> sewing.  One not-so-obvious example is patents.  Discussing a patent
> on an open forum changes the legal liability of ANYONE who reads this
> forum, and doing that without legal advice is dangerous and costly.

Thank you for clarifying.
-- 
Svenn