Scripsit Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Scripsit Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> Without the licensors, there is no commons. Without an ability to >>> enforce licenses, the concept of copyleft becomes pointless. >> You seem to assert that licenses cannot be enforces unless the >> licensor gets carte blanche to harrass licensees with frivolous >> lawsuits. That is not reality. > The licensor *already* has carte blanche to harrass licensees with > fivolous lawsuits. No - if the court throws out the case ex officio because of lack of jurisdiction, no harassment results. >> Do you think that the GPL and the BSD licenses are both pointless? > I think that a copyleft license is utterly pointless if there's no way > for the licensor to be able to afford to sue infringers. According to your argument, the GPL and BSD license must be pointless, because they don't contain any obnoxious choice-of-venue clauses. > But the freedom to be able to enforce the requirements of a software > license *does* have something to do with software freedom. Not anything I can read in the DFSG. -- Henning Makholm "Skidt med din brud når der står et par nymfer i tyl og trikot i den lysegrønne skov!"