Re: ocaml, QPL and the DFSG: Choice of venue argumentation.

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 09:11:07PM -0400, Walter Landry wrote:
> Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 12:59:33PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > |                             Choice of Law
> > |
> > | This license is governed by the Laws of France. Disputes shall be
> > | settled by the Court of Versailles.
> > 
> > Ok, this is the last point of contention. The choice of laws seems to be
> > acceptable, and the choice of venue seems to be the only thing under
> > discussion, altough the DFSG doens't make any mention of it.
> > 
> > I would thus consider it to be a minor inconvenience to any honest recipient
> > of the
> > software, and have a hard time realising that this would be an insurmentable
> > cost in any case, beyond a few international phone calls, letters or other
> > ways of remote conferencing.
> > 
> > The cost of hiring a lawyer in france local to the Court of
> > Versailles is probably less or similar to the cost of hirinig a
> > lawyer of similar competence and fluent in the Laws of France, in a
> > country local to the defendent.
> 
> If I don't speak or read French (or English), it is going to be rather
> difficult to find a lawyer in France.

Bah, you know that some french people speak english, probably a lot more of
US-ihabitant who speak french, so ...

Friendly,

Sven Luther