Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] 'Interesting' license used in project submission - input needed

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

To the least, there's a problem with:

"This license shall be governed by the laws of the State of
California, and subject to the jurisdiction of the courts therein."

(see
http://gplv3.fsf.org/wiki/index.php/Compatible_licenses#Common_reasons_for_incompatibility)

It would probably be good for this project to initiate a conversation
with address@hidden to get their license compatible with the GNU
GPL.

Nice catch.

-- 
Sylvain


On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 01:24:14PM +0100, Stephan Peijnik wrote:
> Hi fellow hackers,
> 
> I've stumbled accross a project submission which confuses me a bit.
> 
> The submission in question can be found at 
> https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?6171.
> 
> Now, if I understood the license they want to use correctly it is not a 
> 'default'
> 3-clause BSD license and seems to actually raise a few issues.
> Clauses #0 seems fine, while #1 and #2 do worry me.
> 
> So, what do you think about it?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Stephan