Marco d'Itri writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Is a license that requires micropayments in exchange for distribution rights >>free? If not, why is a cost measured in terms of legal risk imposed by the >>license more free than one measured in hundredths of a cent? > Because it's not obviously a "cost".
I have already explained why it *is* a cost. Choice of venue is a promise by the licensee to be bound by and to legal processes in the specified court. In the US, and probably in any other common law country, any promise like that -- even a conditional obligation, since litigation is uncertain -- is a thing of value under contract law. Copyleft licenses also require the licensee to make a promise, but that pertains directly to the licensed software (and I can imagine a number of software-related promises that would be non-DFSG-free). But when the cost is unrelated to the licensed software, I see no grounds to argue that the cost is DFSG-free. Michael Poole -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
