George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The venue could make significant difference here, because the licensor could > be terribly wrong in one jurisdiction and correct in another.
That's a problem with choice of law, not choice of venue. > Furthermore you can hadly measure whether the licensor is evil or not, > and can not just rely on his good faith. And that's an argument in favour of not shipping any software at all. > This kind of 'moving sands' via patch clauses are quite similar to > GFDL's invariant sections which Debian considers non-free. They're about as similar to invariant sections as I am. Keeping the variable sections of a license separate and easy to locate is useful - look at the vast number of slightly different versions of the 4-clause BSD, and how as a result there's a need to check that it's actually the same license in all cases rather than having been subtly modified. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]