On Saturday 01 September 2007 17:49, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:

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>On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 04:40:53PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:

>> > Most dictionaries I had at my hand define alternative as choices.

>> > You can get http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alternative

>>

>> Wow.  Let's all go practice law with a dictionary.

>

>? But you mentioned dictionaries first...

You do realize that when it comes to legal documents, such as licenses,

that general-purpose dictionaries are inadequate, right? If you want to

look up legal terms, you need a law dictionary.
I think that if one is ignorant enough of law that one needs to consult

a legal dictionary for more than one or two terms in order to

understand a document, then perhaps it would be best to either do a lot

of studying to become more knowledgeable, or find someone with more

legal training to interpret the document. As a layperson with little

in-depth knowledge of legal code, that's how i see things anyway.
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