On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 10:19:36PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If I, as a resident of BC, Canada, release some code under the CDDL, the > > > last > > > thing I want to do is travel to God knows where (e.g., California) to > > > protect > > > my rights in a court of law. A better example would be Casper, who lives > > > in > > > the Netherlands. Why can't he, as the author of a piece of CDDL-licensed > > > code, > > > chose the venue for lawsuits? > > > > One of the debian mirror operators in <insert random country> can be sued by > > Sun over the distribution of Debian GNU/OpenSolaris, and have to go to the > > expense to go to the Sun chosen court. > > This is a constructed case and extremely improbale..... > > If Debian people believe that they need to make the life of individual OSS > authors like me hard and expensive (by forcing me to be forced to strange > locations of the world initiated by Copyrght breakers), they still need > to learn a lof about freedom :-(
There are plenty of other free/open/whatever software developers who don't have such qualms. > In other words: if you like milk, don't kill the cow.... Unless the cow is sick and produce unusable sour milk or whatever, and there is plenty of other sane ones :) Friendly, Sven Luther _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
