On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 05:21:48PM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: > Anthony DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org> wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 16:16, Joey Hess wrote: > > > 10) Jurisdiction, Venue and Governing Law. You agree that any lawsuit > > > arising under or relating to this License shall be maintained in the > > > courts of the jurisdiction wherein the Licensor resides or in which > > > Licensor conducts its primary business, and under the laws of that > > > jurisdiction excluding its conflict-of-law provisions. > > > > Haven't we rejected these clauses before? This is no different than > > "Under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States" except > > its much more confusing (where does the licensor live today?) > > I don't think so. It isn't GPL compatible, which is why there was a > big fuss about the Python license. But it wasn't considered non-free. I've argued that it's non-free, though. Moreover, from a copyright law perspective, nothing grants a copyright holder the power to forum-shop. -- G. Branden Robinson | It just seems to me that you are Debian GNU/Linux | willfully entering an arse-kicking branden@debian.org | contest with a monstrous entity http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | that has sixteen legs and no arse.
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