On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 09:12:03AM -0700, Rich Teer wrote: > On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Sven Luther wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] added to dlist, in an attempt to > move the this thread there.] > > > 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 how is that different to the license explictely stating that the venue > is is Santa Clara and tough uck if you live in Outer Mongolia.
Exact, which is why choice-of-venue clause in licences are to be shuned, and may even be illegal in some juridiction, which may in turn render the whole licence text void, as i understand. > More to to the point: Suppose you live in Sweden and I live in the UK. > You author a piece of code and I decide to sue you over it. With what Then you have to go to a swedish court and sue me there. The default rules seems to be to sue where the defendant lives, is established or makes business. Or at least the place of the offence. > you're suggesting, we'd have no choice but to go to Santa Clara (say). > At least with the CDDL as it currently stands, you, as the original > author, get to chose the venue for any lawsuits. I'm betting you'd pick > pick Sweden over Santa Clara anytime. :-) Well. but if the UK then refuse to aknowledge the Swedish judgement, what have you gained ? Friendly, Sven Luther _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
