Re: Final text of GPL v3 (original) (raw)

On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 10:31:00AM -0700, Sean Kellogg wrote:

Now, as for me, I will admit that I don't know much about non-US law, although I would be very surprised to hear that law is more liberal on this point in the EU than the US, since these "no practice without a license" laws are consumer protection in nature, and as a general rule, the EU is more strict than the US on such things.

Generally, Finnish (and I assume therefore EU) consumer protection does not apply to transactions between private individuals (that is, when the seller is not engaging in or practicing trade), and neither does it apply to situations like debian-legal where nobody is selling anything.

I am not aware of any law in Finland regulating giving legal advice. There is, however, a (very recently instated) legal requirement for anybody representing someone else at trial to be legally trained. The title "asianajaja" (one of the Finnish terms referring to a lawyer) is also legally restricted to only members of the bar association.

IANLT (... legally trained) and all that

Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Jyväskylä http://antti-juhani.kaijanaho.fi/newblog/

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