On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:57:37 +0100 Francesco Poli wrote: [...] The following parts are the ones that worry me most: > Yahoo! Public License, Version 1.0 (YPL) [...] > The > U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of > Goods shall not apply to this Agreement. What does this U.N. Convention state? Do I surrender some rights of mine by agreeing that this Convention shall not apply? > All disputes arising > out of this Agreement involving Yahoo! or any of its > subsidiaries shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the > federal or state courts of northern California, with venue > lying in Santa Clara County, California. This is a choice of venue clause, which is non-free, IMO. Choice of venue clauses have been discussed to death on debian-legal, hence I won't restate the reasons why I think they are non-free restrictions. The rest of the license seems to be a weak copyleft that's GPL-incompatible. My usual disclaimers: IANAL, TINLA, IANADD, TINASOTODP. -- http://frx.netsons.org/progs/scripts/refresh-pubring.html New! Version 0.6 available! What? See for yourself! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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