Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

[Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org>]

Adam McKenna writes:

> On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 02:36:30PM -0400, Michael Poole wrote:
>> Whether the lawsuit is frivolous or not is totally irrelevant.  What
>> is relevant is that the user is required to give up a legal protection
>> he normally has -- for no better reason than the convenience of the
>> copyright holder to sue users.
>
> The copyright holder can sue users (or even random people off the street, for
> that matter) whether he put a choice of venue clause in his license or not.

Please go back and read the rest of this thread, since your arguments
were previously made and countered.  You argue that since choice of
venue is a small (or putatively reasonable) cost or form of
discrimination, it can be ignored; the DFSG do not allow that.

Michael Poole