MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>1. someone can explain why choice of venue can be DFSG-free; > >How is it not, exactly? It does not limit, in any way, your rights to > >use, modify or distribute the software. > > As I understand it, it limits all those rights by allowing the > licensor to require out-of-pocket expenditure by any licensee on legal > representation in the given venue, instead of possibly representing > yourself in the court local to your offence as seems to happen > otherwise.
It might do that. Or it might have exactly the opposite effect, depending on the legal systems involved and how they interact. If you can show that a particular choice of venue clause has a particular problem because of a particular combination of laws or legal procedures, then that might be an argument for it not being DFSG-free. Otherwise, isn't it sufficient to just mention is as a possible risk when the licence is being discussed and leave it at that?
