On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 10:53:59AM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > On 9/7/05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One of the debian mirror operators in <insert random country> can be sued by > > Sun over the distribution of Debian GNU/OpenSolaris, and have to go to the > > expense to go to the Sun chosen court. > > And the opposite is true for the author. Does not the author deserve > the most since they are the ones that created the work?
Well, if some random third party sues the author, the choice-of-venue-to-the-defendant, which seems to be the default in international law (but IANAL), is as good. The choice of venue clause thus only provides the author with facilitated suing-trigger, and adds nothing to protect him from random third parties. > > This is, in my opinion, not freedom related, but debian is a volunteer > > organisation, and can't afford to take such risks either for our > > infrastructure, our individual developers, our mirror network, debian based > > distributions, or even the end-user, so it is a problem for debian. > > And it isn't a risk for an author? Well, whatever, it is a risk for the author to chose, as it is a risk the debian ftp-masters, in charge of ensuring that, chose not to take. Friendly, Sven Luther _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
