[License-review] For Approval: Open Logistics License v1.2

[Pamela Chestek]

On 12/5/2022 2:45 PM, Carlo Piana wrote:
> The choice to include a choice-of-law provision is really a no-go for me personally. What if someone would change it from Germany to France? And someone else to Japan? What would the applicable law be? Would it be possible or impossible? In case it was impossible, you will have unnecessary friction (and quasi-copyleft), in case it was possible, you will not be better off than without a choice-of-law
Someone recently persuaded me that a choice of law provision is 
beneficial to the extent it provides certainty. Without it, you have no 
idea what law might apply and therefore no way to evaluate the risk.

What do you mean by changing it? Within the same code base, so that some 
of it is under German law and some of it under Japanese law? Is that a 
higher risk problem than someone using a different license altogether?

Pam

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