> > > As U.S. law becomes increasingly hostile to free software development, > > > we may need to revisit that interpretation. > > > > Maybe, but the choice of law stuff is only there for settling certain > > kinds of dispute. > > Strange how the licenses that use choice-of-law provisions never bother > to actually constrain the scope of the clause thus.
Is there any need? If I sign a contract that states that it is to be governed by Egyptian law, say, that doesn't mean that you can prosecute me for breaking Egyptian law. I suppose, if the contract involves some activity which is illegal in Egypt, then an Egyptian court might refuse to enforce it, declaring it null and void. Is that the sort of thing you're worrying about? Conceivably, a GPL program could become in effect BSD/X11 this way. Edmund
