Re: The QPL licence
Glenn Maynard said on Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 01:51:04AM -0400,:
> would the individual clause or the entire license be considered
> invalid? If the latter, licenses with unenforcable clauses should
> probably be considered non-free, as the license could be terminated
> as a result.
That depends on what the unenforcible clause says. If the clause is
the `core' of the license, the entire license will fail; if the
unenforcible clause can be `severed' from other parts (like choice of
venue provisions), then courts will enforce the remaining.
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