On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:25:03 +0200 Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals wrote: [...] > Out of curiosity, could someone please elaborate (or point me to some > page) on why the venue clause is a problem? [...] Choice of venue clauses have been discussed to death on the debian-legal mailing list, with opposite opinions expressed by several people. As I said, my own opinion is that such clauses are non-free restrictions, since they discriminate against people who live far away from the chosen venue and thus fail DFSG#5. Those people can be forced to travel around the planet (and hence sustain unreasonable costs) in order to defend themselves in a dispute raised by the copyright holder. If you feel like reading long and heated discussions about this topic, you may pick up the (sub-)threads that start from the following messages, for instance: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/02/msg00036.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/09/msg00025.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/01/msg00503.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/05/msg00134.html Please remember that threads spanning multiple months are not properly linked on the web archives: as a consequence, before assuming you have read the whole thread, always check the archives for the subsequent month! ;-) -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/progs/scripts/pdebuild-hooks.html Need some pdebuild hook scripts? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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