Sven Luther writes: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 04:21:57PM -0400, Michael Poole wrote: >> Civil law countries define and treat contracts differently than common >> law countries. I'm not a lawyer, much less one specializing in >> international law, so I can't very well say how valid that clause >> would be in France. My guess is that since contracts are more broadly >> defined in those countries, it would be binding on licensees. > > Ok, sounds reasonable, altough i am no lawyer, and really would very much > prefer to be bugfixing than all this non-sense.
I think we all would :) > Still, if the choice of venue is binding, does this make it non-free or not ? Most of debian-legal consider "choice of venue" clauses to be non-free, since they compel any redistributor or even user of the software to present themselves in a foreign court; even in the same country, that can impose significant costs on the defendant. I do not know of debian-legal contributors who consider such clauses DFSG-free. Michael Poole -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
