I've started being a legal wannabee during my first job at Wolters-Kluwer, working with some very bright legal scholar workers on a SGML DTD for all Belgian legislation and jurisprudence. The result of our effort even got used by some other EU W-K companies, so I figure we did a nice job. I've left after three years of working there, but my curiousness w.r.t. legal matters remained. Lawrence Rosen namedropped his new book on the OSI discussion list, so I one-click-ordered it (patented!) through Amazon and I've been reading the book on and off during the past few days. Lawrence employs a clear, precise, and only slightly patronizing writing style which I happen to like. I've only read chapter 1 and 2 so far, but I can already recommend it. Unfortunately, as with many of these books (and licenses), it's a bit too Americo-centric for my taste, but since the US hosts many of the companies interested in the legal implications of open source licensing, that's fairly logical as well. I just saw O'Reilly is cooking up such a book as well, so I pre-ordered a copy already. Yeah, I buy books like other folks buy bread: yet another side-effect of once working for one of the largest publishing companies in the world.
...I can't resist asking...so what do you do with the stale ones? :-)