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

[Pamela Chestek]

Eric,

Thanks for raising this. Yes, as far as I'm  concerned it's not a 
blocker. I had changed the subject line when I first raised it to 
indicate that I was diverging from discussion of the license per se, but 
the change didn't stick. Bradley has now also changed it and I'm taking 
the next step of moving the discussion to license-discuss. Please 
continue the discussion there.

Pam

Pamela S. Chestek
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On 12/12/2022 9:56 PM, Eric Schultz wrote:
> While I have no desire for choice of law clauses and they seem a 
> headache from the user standpoint, I'm not sure this discussion is 
> fair to the submitter.
>
> We already have a number of approved licenses with a choice of law 
> clauses. Unless there's something uniquely egregious in the choice of 
> law clause, it doesn't seem like that should hold up this submission.
>
> That said, it would make sense for OSI to guide this related 
> discussion around choice of law clauses into a more productive, 
> diverse forum for evaluating this from a truly worldwide perspective. 
> I look forward to their leadership on addressing this and other issues 
> around the OSD.
>
> Eric
>
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