Thomas Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It sounds as if you definitely don't understand the legal background. > > Huh? *You* were talking about the Debian rules, now you are switching to > legal backgrounds? Could you please decide what you want?
You did start this discussion. I only try to explain things. > > > Well, you want a software, where every user on this planet can be forced > > > to travel around the globe for a lawsuit. Doesn't sound much better. > > > > This aplies _only_ to users who like to sue _me_, so this only aplies to > > _BAD_ users. > > I suggest you don't take this stuff personally; perhaps you sell the > rights on the software tomorrow to someone else, who could then start to > sue the users based upon your choice of venue of today. Again: if you believe that Debian should rightfully forbid a choice of venue to authors, it does implicitely at the same time require a choice of venue for people who are infringing the rights of the author and like to sue the author. Conclusion: if Debian would act this way, Debian would be anti-social and put the authors off Debian. As a later result, there would be no free software anymore. Free Software is a curtesy of it's authors. If you take away all rights from the authors, you loose anything you have. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily