On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:29:45 +1100 Ben Finney wrote: > Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:16:11 +1100 Ben Finney wrote: [...] > > One thing that was not yet pointed out is that this license, besides > > the other issues, also has a choice of venue clause. This means > > that even distributing it in non-free could be seen as a bad idea... > > I know that many consider choice-of-venue clauses to make a work > non-free. I'm not aware of any arguments that mean we can't even > distribute such a work in non-free (i.e. not distribute the work at > all).
Well, IIRC, it was argued that such a restriction could be seen as problematic for mirrors operators. At least, if *I* were a mirror operator, I would feel really uncomfortable in accepting such a clause! -- But it is also tradition that times *must* and always do change, my friend. -- from _Coming to America_ ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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