Re: Request Discussion Pre-Reviews For New Licenses (chewkeanho-rlos, chewkeanho-cos, chewkeanho-gpos)
Aaron Williamson <[email protected]> Wed, 2 Oct 2024 13:48:37 -0400
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On Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 7:48 AM Bruce Perens via License-discuss < [email protected]> wrote: > The word "SHALL" must not be used in a license. Please replace all > occurrences of "SHALL" with "MUST" and see > https://www.plainlanguage.gov/guidelines/conversational/shall-and-must/ > for the reasons you must do so. > > I am assuming you are not a legal professional, I think one would not have > missed that issue by now. > This may be an emerging best practice, but it's certainly not ubiquitous practice amongst U.S. legal professionals. On the contrary, my experience is that "shall" is still more commonly used, regardless of the type of legal document in question. _______________________________________________ The opinions expressed in this email are those of the sender and not necessarily those of the Open Source Initiative. Official statements by the Open Source Initiative will be sent from an opensource.org email address. License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org