Re: RPSL and DFSG-compliance - choice of venue

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

On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 03:05:10PM -0400, Michael Poole wrote:
> Sven Luther writes:
> 
> > Well, i think if the question would be if the choice of venue consitutes a
> > fee, and thus violate DFSG 1, or is not a fee and thus either needs a new DFSG
> > entry, or violate DFSG 5 by discriminating against licence violators far away
> > from the chosen venue, then you would have a much less consensual situation
> > still.
> 
> This last is a fallacious argument.  Choice of venue does not only
> discriminate against license violators.  It discriminates against
> *all* users outside the chosen venue, in rough proportion to their
> distance from it.

Sure sure. But it clearly is much more profitable to licence violators than to
joe random user.

Still, the main point stands that there really is no sane way that a choice of
venue clause could be considered a fee.

Friendly,

Sven Luther