Hi Jan,

I think that in most European countries you can't legally "force" a
> non-local jurisdiction on an individual volunteer, so that part of the
> "contract"[*] would be legally very dubious...
>

Citation needed. Your definition of "forced" here is also bit dubious imho.

[*] I'm not sure if a judge would accept a "contract" that is forced
> upon a unpaid volunteer individual and contains disproportionate and/or
> unequal language to be legally valid at all.
>

Again, if the volunteer signs this contract, in what world does the law say
they are being forced to sign it?

Magdalen

On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 12:27 AM, Jan Claeys <[email protected]> wrote:

> Benjamin Berg schreef op ma 03-11-2014 om 22:46 [+0100]:
> >       * If someone starts a civil lawsuit against me, I do want my local
> >         jurisdiction to apply. I have no way of properly defending
> >         myself if a US court is responsible. I do understand that the
> >         foundation does not want to be sued outside the country it is
> >         based, but the same is true for everyone involved.
>
> I think that in most European countries you can't legally "force" a
> non-local jurisdiction on an individual volunteer, so that part of the
> "contract"[*] would be legally very dubious...
>
>
> [*] I'm not sure if a judge would accept a "contract" that is forced
> upon a unpaid volunteer individual and contains disproportionate and/or
> unequal language to be legally valid at all.  (But of course the GNOME
> foundation's local jurisdiction and the volunteer's local jurisdiction
> might disagree on that too.)
>
>
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> Jan Claeys
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