On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 10:40:04PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This is not the issue I understood Debian to have with CDDL. I > > > understood the concern some individuals expressed to be about the fact > > > that the choice of law and venue was parameterised, allowing a user of > > > CDDL to select law and venue on a use-by-use basis in a way that might > > > change the meaning of some terms of the CDDL or work in a way that > > > rendered the license non-Free. > > > > Ah, i was not aware of this, but yes, this is an additional problem. A fixed > > choice-of-law is perfectly valid, and has been accepted as such in the past, > > it was only the choice-of-venue to be problematic. > > So let me again encourage you also to have a look at the star source and > to compare the license text in star,c & acltext.c
Ok, i will. > I hope that you then will understand why it needs to stay as it is in order > to allow individuals like me to put something under the CDDL. But then, i think there are other issues here, there is the problem of sun releasing their own owned code, namely OpenSolaris, and then there is your own personal needs, altough i don't know for sure what code you did contribute. Now, if the choice-of-venue clause was not present in the CDDL, you could easily enough use the CDDL with an added choice-of-venue clause, could you not ? Also, even while the choice-of-venue is modular, it could be arranged such that it is set at each time someone makes a contribution, he choses the choice-of-venue for his contribution, but i still think it is best to leave it of completely. So, basically, you are afraid someone will steal your code, and make unlawful things with it, and you wish to have the best legal arsenal to track it doawn. Tell me how many time did you sue folk over using your code ? And what your intentions are exactly in the future ? And will you also start suing teenager girls like some :) ? Friendly, Sven Luther _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
