Could you please not quote upside-down? On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 02:35:05PM -0700, Joseph Lorenzo Hall wrote: > As well, the fact that is is framed as a "license agreement" invokes > contract law instead of pure copyright... in the U.S., contract law is > different in every state and some even have gap-filling measures > which, in a court of law, would add things to the license that even > the licensor didn't intend (choice of venue changes this, but choice > of venue provisions are about as non-free as it gets).
Well, I think choice of venue is non-free, but I don't think it's quite that severe. "Send me $10 for every copy made" and "no redistribution or modification of any kind" are restrictions I'd call "as non-free as it gets"; it's somewhat of an exaggeration to put choice of venue on that level. -- Glenn Maynard