Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For this reason, Debian should reject choice of venue clauses as non-free. > At best, they give an underdog copyright holder a small advantage while > enforcing his rights, but at worst they give a hostile copyright holder a > large advantage while persecuting the Free Software community.
I'm not convinced that the advantage to the copyright holder is small. If a large US corporation violates my copyright license, I'm likely to stand a significantly better chance if I can sue them in the UK. To some extent, I think it comes down to intent - if people are introducing these clauses with the desire to restrict people's behaviour above and beyond the terms of the license, then that's non-free. If they're doing it in order to make it easier to enforce the terms of the license, then I think the situation is less clear. Personally, I'd be tempted to lean towards a situation similar to how we deal with patents - if a copyright holder shows any inclination to enage in frivolous lawsuits, then we don't ship it. If they're not so inclined, it's probably not an issue. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
