(U.S. only) state government question

[Baines, L (Linda)]

What is meant to happen where an OSI licence does not specify a
jurisdiction or law that applies?

Regards
Linda


-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen C. North [mailto:north at research.att.com] 
Sent: 16 February 2005 18:51
To: license-discuss at opensource.org
Subject: (U.S. only) state government question


Greetings.  A state government employee would like to license certain
open source software, but believes it is impossible because its OSI
approved license (specifically, the CPL) specifies a different state (in
this case the State of New York) as the jurisdiction for legal claims.
The employee says, one state can't be bound by the laws of another.

Is this truly a problem?  Has anyone solved it already?

Stephen North