Re: PBS License
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Raul Miller wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:28:04PM -0600, John Galt wrote:
>> It seems that the PBS license has the choice of law clause for
>> Virginia, a UCTIA state. In the past, this was enough to make a
>> license questionable. Is it enough reason to make it non-free on it's
>> own? Remember, the choice of law thing actually makes a weird sort of
>> sense, as it IS a click-wrap license, and UCTIA gives a click-wrap the
>> force of law.
>
>Bleah.
>
>I think here we should show that there's some specific problem with
>UCTIA and the OpenPBS license -- I don't think it's fair to reject the
>software because there might be a problem, but we're too ignorant to
>know whether one actually exists.
You're right, but this is also precedent setting: the first time that a
choice of law of a state where UCITA is in effect (it took effect 7/1) has
been used in an otherwise free license that was submitted as a candidate
to d-l. This may take some time to work out. The clause itself is
innocuous, but the undercurrrent of UCITA may very well change relatively
straightforward meanings within the license, and the PBS license is
definitely not straightforward, as we've been becoming most painfully
aware of as of late.
For reference, I'll be using
http://www.law.upenn.edu/bll/ulc/ucita/ucitaFinal00.htm
It seems kind of weird using UPenn's law site, but that's where
ucitaonline sends you...
STAY TUNED :) (I always wanted to say that...)
>Thanks,
>
>
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