From: Alex Pavloff <BLAHapavloff AT BLAHeason DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Text (console) UIs for C/C++ (Linux and DOS)
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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 20:23:08 GMT
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On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 17:27:50 GMT, John Hasler <john AT dhh DOT gt DOT org> wrote:

>Philip Pemberton writes:
>> Anyone got a "No Legalese" copy of [the LGPL]?
>
>Such a thing cannot exist.  Re-writing it in "simpler" language would just
>be creating another similar license which might or might not have the same
>effect.  Just ask your lawyer to explain the LGPL to you.  That's what you
>would do with a commercial license you didn't understand, right? 

I've heard this "get a lawyer to explain it to you" from numerous
people, but how many of you got a lawyer to explain it to you in the
first place?  Really?