Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If I, as a resident of BC, Canada, release some code under the CDDL, the
> > last
> > thing I want to do is travel to God knows where (e.g., California) to
> > protect
> > my rights in a court of law. A better example would be Casper, who lives in
> > the Netherlands. Why can't he, as the author of a piece of CDDL-licensed
> > code,
> > chose the venue for lawsuits?
>
> 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.
This is a constructed case and extremely improbale.....
If Debian people believe that they need to make the life of individual OSS
authors like me hard and expensive (by forcing me to be forced to strange
locations of the world initiated by Copyrght breakers), they still need
to learn a lof about freedom :-(
In other words: if you like milk, don't kill the cow....
Jörg
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