On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 03:35:20PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: Matthew> The legal system discriminates in favour of rich people. That's true Matthew> regardless of license conditions.
Although I don' dispute this assertion per se, the problem at hand is that *geography* necessarily discriminates in favor of people who are closer to such or such jurisdiction. Such a discrimination will necessarily occur. I do not see the difference in the degree of discrimination whether the determination of the group discriminated against is left to international private law or a license. The only argument I can see against choice of venue clauses is that if you distribute your software on a worldwide basis, then you'll have to expect to enforce it's license on a worldwide basis or to not enforce it in certain regions. Of course, that line of reasoning might have a chilling effect on small companies/individual developers. I don't really think there's a perfect solution as regarding discrimination on this issue. -- Yorick Cool Chercheur au CRID Rempart de la Vierge, 5 B-5000 Namur Tel: + 32 (0)81 72 47 62 /+32 (0)81 51 37 75 Fax: + 32 (0)81 72 52 02
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