On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 09:35:19AM -0700, Rich Teer wrote: > On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > 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 > > Huh? I don't see how you could arrive at your position from what I stated.
The only thing that a choice-of-venue of this kind allows is to facilitate the licensor to sue random people all over. > > Then you have to go to a swedish court and sue me there. The default rules > > Why should I (or you, or anyone else), as an independant author, be subjected > to unnecessary expense in order to protect my rights? > > As Casper said, I think you'll find that most often, it is the person > who starts the suit that gets to pick venue. Well, this is not the return i had when i (unofficially) investigated this issue over the ocaml/QPL issue last year, where i was told that you can sue someone only where he lives, is based or makes business. > > Well. but if the UK then refuse to aknowledge the Swedish judgement, what > > have > > you gained ? > > Huh? I'm, hoping the Swedish authorities will enforce the judgement. > But I think you're changing the subject. Let's say the defendent lives in china, or some random african state for example, then. Friendly, Sven Luther _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
