On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Gregg Reynolds <d...@mobileink.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 12:27 AM, Atamert Ölçgen <mu...@muhuk.com> wrote: > >> This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of New York and the >>> intellectual property laws of the United States of America. >> >> >> This is a very peculiar clause for me. I have just checked GPL text and >> it doesn't contain anything like that. I'll look into this further later, >> but at this point I'm concerned by a license that is in a way limited to a >> geographical location. A location which I don't live. >> >> The web never lies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7232485 > I don't know what I'm supposed to learn from that thread. But clicking through I have arrived here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-misc-discuss/2009-08/msg00062.html I don't see why choice of law clauses would necessarily be additional >> restrictions. To me, it seems they are more like definitions. They are >> telling you that the meaning of the license is interpreted under a >> particular established law. If the license, when interpreted under that >> law, does not impose any additional restrictions, why couldn't it be GPL >> compatible? > > It reduces the freedom of people in other jurisdictions. These people, > theoretically, could become subject to an alien legal system over which > they have no control, no knowledge, and no access to lawyers versed in > it. This is a disincentive to use software restricted in this fashion. So it seems, for non-US citizens, choosing a license that doesn't contain a choice of law clause is the rational way to go. In fact I'm probably going to change one of my library's license to GPL tomorrow. It's easier to switch to a more liberal license than the other way around. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Kind Regards, Atamert Ölçgen -+- --+ +++ www.muhuk.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
