Jim Marhaus wrote: > > Hi all - > > With the recent discussion about choice of venue, I was wondering about > the Mozilla license. Specifically, the Mozilla Public License v. 1.1 [1] > seems to contain a choice of venue clause in section 11: > > | With respect to disputes in which at least one party is a citizen of, or > | an entity chartered or registered to do business in the United States of > | America, any litigation relating to this License shall be subject to the > | jurisdiction of the Federal Courts of the Northern District of > | California, with venue lying in Santa Clara County, California, with the > | losing party responsible for costs, including without limitation, court > | costs and reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses. > > http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/MPL-1.1.html > > As discussed recently, choice of venue clauses may be non-free, because > they require parties to travel unreasonable distances to avoid summary > decisions against them. Does this clause make the MPL non-free?
I believe so. Doesn't Debian use Mozilla under the GPL/LGPL license option though? (In other words, is anyone using the MPL in a way that matters to Debian?) <snip other MPL problems>
