On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 07:59:14PM -0400, Jennifer Brown wrote: > From: Steve Langasek [mailto: vorlon@debian.org] > >>Bearing in mind also that people don't generally put clauses in > >>their licenses which they believe *can't* be used to their advantage. > As I understand it choice of venue clauses are standard "boiler plate" > language in agreements regardless of whether or not the clause has any > known validity. Yes, sure; I don't think irrelevant boilerplate is a *good* thing to have in licenses, however. > Also please forgive my ignorance but can someone give me a primer on the > term "free" as it relates to this discussion. Someone once told me that > free does not necessarily mean devoid of cost and/or risk. The shared definition of "free" used here is the one elaborated at <http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines>. If it wasn't already obvious, most traffic on this list is the result of disagreements over the application of these guidelines to corner cases. ;) -- 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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