Re: Choice of venue, was: GUADEC report

[Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Nathanael" == Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com> writes:

    Nathanael> Matthew Garrett wrote:
    >> I'd rather go with a similar policy to where we stand with
    >> patents. If a license termination clause isn't being actively
    >> enforced, and there's no good reason to suspect that it will be
    >> in future, we should accept it as free.

    Nathanael> I would assume that if a licensor put such a clause in
    Nathanael> their license, they intend to use it.

I don't think this is a good assumption based on my involvement in
development of legal documents.  Most lawyers need an explicit reason
to not include something, not a reason to include something.

--Sam