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Re: License discussions in Debian



On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 10:20:40PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> ] > I thought choice-of-venue is non-free by default?

An example of a different MPL 1.1 derived choice-of-venue clause is
firebird2's:

    This License shall be governed by California law provisions (except to
    the extent applicable law, if any, provides otherwise), excluding its
    conflict-of-law provisions. With respect to disputes in which at least
    one party is a citizen of, or an entity chartered or registered to
    do business in the United States of America, any litigation relating
    to this License shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal
    Courts of the Northern District of California, with venue lying in
    Santa Clara County, California, with the losing party responsible
    for costs, including without limitation, court costs and reasonable
    attorneys' fees and expenses.

Perhaps a more interesting example is xserver-xorg-core's inclusion of the
GLX Public License, which includes:

     Any litigation relating to this License shall be subject to the
     exclusive jurisdiction of the Federal Courts of the Northern District
     of California (or, absent subject matter jurisdiction in such courts,
     the courts of the State of California), with venue lying exclusively
     in Santa Clara County, California, with the losing party responsible
     for costs, including without limitation, court costs and reasonable
     attorneys fees and expenses.

The CID Font Code Public License and the SGI Free Software License B in the same
package have similar clauses.

Sourced from http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/11/msg00113.html and
some quick grepping through copyright files in the lintian lab on gluck.

Cheers,
aj

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