On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 01:56:50PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org> >> Henning Makholm writes: >>> I doubt that "people who do not wish to become legally bound to appear >>> at the the author's home court whenever he files a frivolous lawsuit" >>> can be meaningfully described as a "group of persons" that can be >>> discriminated against. If everybody belongs to the group, is it >>> meaningfull to discriminate against it? >> Not everyone belongs to the group: In all cases to date (and likely >> all cases in the future), some people would naturally be subject to >> the court's jurisdiction. > Unless they have for some reason already decided conclusively that > they will never leave that jurisdiction and settle elsewhere, they are > still inconvenienced. >> As an example, the QPL discriminates against everyone who does not >> live conveniently close to Olso. > And against people who do live close to Oslo but may later contemplate > to move elsewhere. That raises an interesting situatoin. What if the author moves? The author would have to travel back to Oslo to participate in a law suit related to that version of the license. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 8th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) Paul.Hampson@Anu.edu.au "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from I wonder?" -- Capt. Jack Sparrow, "Pirates of the Caribbean" License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.1/au/ -----------------------------------------------------------
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