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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-November/019860.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-November/019860.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..218a7f5a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-November/019860.html @@ -0,0 +1,104 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-dev] Draft of a Letter to the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20Draft%20of%20a%20Letter%20to%20the%20Software%20Freedom%20Law%0A%20Center%20%28SFLC%29.&In-Reply-To=%3C1352378990.21503.14.camel%40localhost.localdomain%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="019858.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="019827.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-dev] Draft of a Letter to the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC).</H1> + <B>Liam R E Quin</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20Draft%20of%20a%20Letter%20to%20the%20Software%20Freedom%20Law%0A%20Center%20%28SFLC%29.&In-Reply-To=%3C1352378990.21503.14.camel%40localhost.localdomain%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-dev] Draft of a Letter to the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC).">liam at holoweb.net + </A><BR> + <I>Thu Nov 8 13:49:50 CET 2012</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="019858.html">[Mageia-dev] Draft of a Letter to the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="019827.html">[Mageia-dev] Submit new rpmlint-mageia-policy +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#19860">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#19860">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#19860">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#19860">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 09:15 +0000, Donald Stewart wrote: +><i> On 8 November 2012 00:45, Johnny A. Solbu <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">cooker at solbu.net</A>> wrote: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > On Tuesday 06 November 2012 23:39, Shlomi Fish wrote: +</I>><i> > > Dear sirs or madams, +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > To me, this sounds a little to generic, a little to unformal [...] +</I> +><i> > No, this is wrong, you *cannot* use just one, it has to be both. You could +</I>><i> have Dear Sir/Madam, but the correct usage is as originally stated. This +</I>><i> is an official letter, and therefore should have the official address to +</I>><i> the recipient. +</I> +Dear Sir or Madam +is appropriate (note the capitalization). + +You could also be more specific, or, better yet, find out the name of +the person or people to whom you are writing. + +"to ask, whether and how we can" +should of course be "to ask whether (and how) we can..." +with the extra comma removed. + +There is no such thing as a "definitive legal insight" in the USA. The +way the law works is that judges (formally called "courts") _interpret_ +the law. + +You may, however, ask for advice: + +"We would appreciate any advice that you can give to us in this matter." + + +Liam + +-- +Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, <A HREF="http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/">http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/</A> +Pictures from old books: <A HREF="http://fromoldbooks.org/">http://fromoldbooks.org/</A> +Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml + +-- +Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, <A HREF="http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/">http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/</A> +Pictures from old books: <A HREF="http://fromoldbooks.org/">http://fromoldbooks.org/</A> +Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml + +</PRE> + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="019858.html">[Mageia-dev] Draft of a Letter to the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="019827.html">[Mageia-dev] Submit new rpmlint-mageia-policy +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#19860">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#19860">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#19860">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#19860">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |