On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 02:31:44PM -0400, Lex Spoon wrote: > Just to toss some fuel on the fire, it seems like debian-legal should > give careful consideration to licenses like this that are written by a > team of lawyers from a big corporation. These licenses seem to > frequently include stipulations about how litigation may > happen--including choice of venue and who pays for it--and heck, maybe > it's just good legal hygiene to include these things. I don't know the > answers, but it would be a shame if Debian ends up recommending people > to use *poor* licenses in order for us to consider them to be "free". > This would be a good thing to ask an IP lawyer about if any debian-legal > people get a chance. Choice of law would fall into this category. I think that choice of venue would not - it's more a case of lawyers trying to grab everything they can, to improve the corporate bottom line. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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