On 1/26/06, Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:30:32 +0100 Achim Bohnet wrote: > > > You may not modify the Documentation. > > As already pointed out by Andrew Donnellan, Documentation is non-free: > it actually fails DFSG#3. > > [...] > > 6. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION. > [...] > > Any dispute arising out of or > > related to this Agreement shall be brought in the courts of Santa > > Clara County, California, USA. > > This is a choice of venue and is considered non-free by many > debian-legal contributors (including me...). > > In a nutshell, this choice of venue discriminates against people who > live far away from Santa Clara County, California, USA and thus fail > DFSG#5. Those people can be forced to travel around the planet in order > to defend themselves in a dispute raised by the copyright holder.
Personally I think choice of venue clauses are reasonable, because it only discriminates against those who have broken the license. Also I don't think Adobe is going to sue you for a minor violation. > > [...] > > MetadataFrameworkSDK.09.13.01_10:44 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED > > > > LICENCE DE LOGICIEL LIBRE > [...] > > There seem to be two versions of the license: one is drafted in English, > the other in French. > It is not clear to me which version is the official one. > Or are they both official and any of them may be chosen, at the > recipient's option? > > Since I'm not qualified to read French legalese, I cannot check if the > two versions have indeed the exact same meaning (which is not easy to > accomplish...). Maybe the French translation is for Quebec, where I think French language is needed in legal documents. And no, I can't read French. I think this license is free enough for Software only, except everyone else seems to hate choice of venue clauses. andrew -- Andrew Donnellan http://andrewdonnellan.com http://ajdlinux.blogspot.com Jabber - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------- Member of Linux Australia - http://linux.org.au Debian user - http://debian.org Get free rewards - http://ezyrewards.com/?id=23484 OpenNIC user - http://www.opennic.unrated.net
