On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 12:31:59PM +1100, Glenn L McGrath wrote: > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 22:50:01 +0000 > Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> wrote: > > > I do not see how a free software developer trying to squeeze money out > > of a megacorporation, and having to spend a bit extra to travel to > > their country and do it (before a long and very expensive legal > > battle), is equally unfair as a megacorporation picking on some random > > user and giving them a choice between (a) an expensive trip halfway > > around the world to appear in court and defend themselves against a > > fraudulant lawsuit, that could only become a problem if they don't > > show up to defend yourself, or (b) effective exile from the country in > > question, because the case was decided against them due to the > > defendant not appearing in court, and so visiting that country would > > result in their arrest. > > > > Somebody who is trying to 'enforce their copyrights' is always going > > to have to spend a lot of money on it, and should be prepared to do > > that; they can try to bill their travel costs to the defendant if they > > win. A user should never have to be prepared to defend themselves > > against this sort of crap, aside from the minimal response demanded by > > a local suit. They just aren't in the same class. > > bah... > > A licence is practically meaningless is the copyright holder doesnt > have the resources to defend it. Thanks for classifying all my work as meaningless. I'll just go and revoke the licences on all my stuff, since they're meaningless. > Your want to protect end users by make it harder for the individual > copyright holders to defend their work. > > Given that most free software is written by the little bloke, i consider > your stance is counterproductive. You'd do a lot better at this if you read the entireity of the message you're responding to. Litigating a copyright infringement claim is *always* going to cost a pile of money. If you'd like to froth about that, your local legislature is over --> there. We can't do anything about it. What we can do is reduce the impact of the problem as far as possible, by limiting the amount of hassle a malicious copyright holder can cause users through the execution of frivolous lawsuits under a licence which specifies a choice of venue. - Matt
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