On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 04:24:03PM +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > Gregor Hoffleit wrote: > > Is there any reason for you to include this choice of law clause anyway, if > > you don't live in Virginia ? > > I have to make the governing law the German law since that is where > my company is located. The text from my version is: > > """ > This License Agreement shall be governed by and interpreted in all > respects by the law of Germany, excluding conflict of law > provisions. It shall not be governed by the United Nations Convention > on Contracts for International Sale of Goods. > """
Well, I guess that beyond my legal scope (why is it reasonable to exclude that UN Convention ?), and certainly it gets quite off-topic on this list. Is it really necessary to make a choice of law, and how does it help you? (I mean, the GPL, the X11 license, BSD-like licenses, the Apache license and the old Python license all work without such a clause). AFAIK, RMS and his lawyer say that any restriction on the choice of law is incompatible with the GPL, therefore I don't see how you could include such a clause in the license and still make it compatible with the GPL. If you're interested in some opinions from Debian, would you mind to send a mail to debian-legal@lists.debian.org and ask there for comments ? Have you considered mailing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask them for their opinion ? > > Does anyone know of the wording of the new 1.6.1 license ? I didn't even knew there will be a 1.6.1 release. Will there be a change in the license ? Gregor