On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 05:54:34PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Sep 09, George Danchev <danchev@spnet.net> wrote: > > Debian has always been full of software licensed that way ;-) Now you want > > (unintentially) to leave possible holes thru new 'a-la sco insane cases' to > > enter the scene... all over the world. > Not "now". Debian (and I think every other distribution) has been > distributing software with this kind of licenses for years, without any > apparent ill effect on users. > And do not forget that there are many places (e.g. California) which > allow big companies (e.g. the MPAA or Adobe) to sue there people from > other states or countries (e.g. people accused to violate the DMCA) > without even the need for a license... If you look at the big picture, > choice of venue clauses are not much important. Erm, Matt Pavlovich *won* that appeal to the California supreme court; distribution of allegedly infringing material over the Internet is *not* sufficient to give the California courts jurisdiction over a case. But accepting a choice of venue clause is. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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