Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 07:27:35PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > > It makes it inconvenient for users and debian-legal, needing to > > know local absurdities of Seaforth or whereever's court procedures. > > By this reasoning, we should reject every package for which someone holds > copyright, because it is inconvenient for us to know the local absurdities of > copyright law of Seaforth or whereever.
Not really. There are very widespread international agreements which give us a reasonably common copyright to use (Berne Union?). Are there similar treaties about court procedure? If so, we really could do with knowing about them. I doubt they exist because even within the EU, courts are very different. I certainly remember complaints about licences that rely on some feature of US law (like "fair use rights") without a choice of law. COV seems a fairly similar but reversed situation. Even so, convenience isn't necessarily a problem for DFSG. It just makes it a lot harder to reach consensus. Have you noticed that? -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
