Re: [License-discuss] in opposition of 'choice of law' provisions in FOSS licenses

2022-12-13 Thread Pamela Chestek
On 12/13/2022 11:15 AM, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: First, is there an approved license that chooses a*specific*,*named* jurisdiction? There are many licenses that either name a specific jurisdiction, will have a specific, named jurisdiction once you know who the licensor is, or allow the licensor t

[License-discuss] Retroactively disapproving licenses

2022-12-13 Thread Lawrence Rosen
Brad Kuhn wrote in his long and opinionated email: I've been suggesting that the OSI should have a dis-approval or delisting process, capable of being initiated by someone other than the license steward, for a long time, but the OSI has been pretty resistant to this idea.

Re: [License-discuss] in opposition of 'choice of law' provisions in FOSS licenses

2022-12-13 Thread Richard Fontana
On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 1:51 PM Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > Fontana answered this morning (here on license-discuss): > Probably the most significant one historically is MPL 1.1 and its > ancestors (California) > > Ugh, I'd forgotten that, but of course glad it's fixed! Was there anything

Re: [License-discuss] in opposition of 'choice of law' provisions in FOSS licenses

2022-12-13 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
Pam, Pamela Chestek wrote at 08:40 (PST) today: > I'm taking the next step of moving the discussion to > license-discuss. Please continue the discussion there. That makes, sense, although as a point of order, I think you might have typo'ed your email moving the thread. Your post moving it didn't

Re: [License-discuss] [License-review] in opposition of 'choice of law' provisions in FOSS licenses (was: For Approval: Open Logistics License v1.2)

2022-12-13 Thread Richard Fontana
(moving this reply to license-discuss) On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 11:41 AM Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > > Eric Schultz wrote: > > We already have a number of approved licenses with a choice of law clauses. > > First, is there an approved license that chooses a *specific*, *named* > jurisdiction? (There