On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 10:47:59PM +1000, Paul TBBle Hampson wrote: > > These two do not appear to be compatible (unless you think a license > > can be "free" with a venue choice that you do not consider "sane"), so > > I must have misunderstood one of them. Could you elaborate, please? > If we replace "sane" with "enforcable" (which is what I think the OP was > getting at) then they are in fact compatible. A license does not become > non-free if it contains unenforcable components, unless it contains a component > that specifies that any unenforcable clause voids the whole license. But choice-of-venue clauses, at least in contracts, *are* enforceable in some significant jurisdictions -- like the one which hosts ftp-master.debian.org. So their freeness is still an issue. -- 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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