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Removes redundant line about laws/regulations #32

Open csarven opened 3 years ago

csarven commented 3 years ago

Related follow up on specifying laws/regulations: https://github.com/solid/solidcommunity.net/issues/26#issuecomment-757868574

justinwb commented 3 years ago

We were fortunate enough to get volunteer assistance from a legal specialist to get these terms crafted. IANAL, but what was communicated while we iterated on the draft terms was that the line in question was being deliberately restated at the end of the term bullets, in a slightly different context (use to vs. in connection with)

csarven commented 3 years ago

IANAL, I've created this PR because I've interpreted the text as intended for the the general audience, hence the redundancy.

If that kind of legal precision is significant for the text intended for the general audience, then it may be preferable to distinguish between two versions: general/human-readable version and the official legal version.

See for example, a human-readable summary of a license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 with its official (legal) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode