On Friday 09 September 2005 19:35, Matthew Garrett wrote: > George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 09 September 2005 18:24, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >> But that's already possible. The majority (all?) of licenses that we > >> ship don't prevent me from being sued arbitrarily. The only difference > >> that choice of venue makes is that it potentially increases the cost for > >> me. Within the UK alone, I can end up paying fairly large travel fees to > >> deal with a court case. But I'll have to pay a lot more for a lawyer. > >> Being sued in the US wouldn't be significantly more expensive for me > >> than being sued here. > > > > The problem is not only with the expensive funny lawsuit trips, you may > > find some jurisdictions and local lows quite ... let's say just strange. > > That's choice of law, rather than choice of venue. I was under the > impression that it was generally accepted.
I mean the venue designates the jurisdiction where a lawsuit process is held. Can you prove somehow that all of them around the globe are sane and wont be used for speculations ... <put-more-insane-fast-money-seeking-killing-any-competition-monopilic-methods-here> I have currently no args against choice-of-law, but doesn't mean it is sane and safe. I just wonder why COV and COL are not present in proven licenses like GPL, BSD, Artistic, and why are they needed from now on. > >> How do we protect against that currently? > > > > What changes the picture is that you just add new possibilities to be > > possibly attacked and as we all know sco wont be the last, it was not the > > smartest either... > > So the presence of a choice of venue clause is a quantitative > difference rather than a qualitative one? I don't think it makes any difference. You just open new holes I'm arguing against. Why you need to put that baseless challenges on user's souls ? -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]