> From: Henry Pijffers [mailto:henry.pijffers@;saxnot.com] > How good do you think it is for us Europeans and other non-US > residents? > > And on a sidenote, I don't like licenses that designate a specific > court of law. I ain't gonna go to the US of A to defend my rights.
Under the OSL, if you are the Licensor you determine the jurisdiction. It's your software after all. So if you write and license your software in Europe to customers anywhere, you can defend your rights in Europe under European contract law. If you are the licensee, you can demand your rights in a jurisdiction where the licensor resides or has its primary business. So if you want to sue a big US company for licensing software to you over the Internet while you were in your home in Paris, and big US company has registered to do business in Paris, you can sue big US company in Paris. Almost every license on the OSI approved list specifies a US jurisdiction. The OSL is specifically intended to be country neutral in that respect. If it isn't, we should make it so. What changes do you suggest? /Larry Rosen -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3