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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2018-12-07 3:06 a.m., Matija Šuklje
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I suggest we continue to think of the International category as
encompassing licenses "targeting specific languages and
jurisdictions", to use Mike's phrasing from 2015, rather than
the typical approach we see in open source licensing of having
a single English-language text that is largely perceived by the
community, correctly or not, as being jurisdiction-neutral in
design or orientation.
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Just for clarification, is this more about language or
jurisdiction (or both)?
Say, for example that there is a fictive FOSS license that would
be written in English, yet have Malta as its jurisdiction …or,
even more confusingly, be written in English and have the UK (or
US) as its jurisdiction?</pre>
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<p>It's both. When I wrote that email in 2015 I used an "and" on
purpose. In the case of Quebec, they have a legal requirement that
their licenses must be in French. The EU has similar statutory
language requirements. By convention, OSS expects English as the
language of the license, but there are places in the world where
that is legally impossible. <br>
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<p>HTH.<br>
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