On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:44:52 -0700 Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals wrote: [...] > > 5. This license of use of the Software shall be governed by the laws > > of Japan, and the Kyoto District Court shall have exclusive primary > > jurisdiction with respect to all disputes arising with respect > > thereto. > > This sounds like proscribed venue;
Yes, it really looks like a choice of law clause (which is usually fine), followed by a choice of venue clause (which is seen as non-free by a number of people, despite being considered acceptable by others). > that's not something that I would > ever agree to in a software licence without thought. However, I'm not > sure what the current consensus is about the freeness of such clauses. I think that my own personal opinion on choice of venue clauses is well known to debian-legal regulars: I am convinced that such clauses are non-free. BTW, I agree with the rest of your analysis. -- 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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