<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Having recently read through a large number of licenses on the OSI approved license list, I feel compelled to correct this:</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 1:31 PM Bradley M. Kuhn <<a href="mailto:bkuhn@ebb.org">bkuhn@ebb.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> * It has a “choice of law” clause for Germany. This is unprecedented<br>
because — after changes in recent years to in EPL and MPL — no other<br>
licenses on OSI-approved list have a “choice of law” of Germany<br>
specifically, and it seems the only active precedents for a “choice of<br>
law” clause permanently nailed to a single jurisdiction (rather than<br>
“jurisdiction of the Licensor”-style “choice of law”) is the Qt License,<br>
which is a deprecated vanity license.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Here is a probably incomplete list of other OSI-approved licenses with some version of a choice-of-law clause:</div><div><ul><li>CeCILL Free Software License Agreement v2.0 (<a href="https://github.com/spdx/license-list-data/blob/main/text/CECILL-2.0.txt">https://github.com/spdx/license-list-data/blob/main/text/CECILL-2.0.txt</a>)</li><li>IBM Public License Version 1.0 (<a href="https://opensource.org/licenses/IPL-1.0">https://opensource.org/licenses/IPL-1.0</a>)</li><li>Licence Libre du Québec – Réciprocité forte version 1.1 (<a href="https://opensource.org/licenses/LiLiQ-Rplus-1.1">https://opensource.org/licenses/LiLiQ-Rplus-1.1</a>)</li><li>Lucent Public License Version 1.0 (<a href="https://opensource.org/licenses/LPL-1.0">https://opensource.org/licenses/LPL-1.0</a>)</li><li>Open Software License - all versions (e.g. <a href="https://opensource.org/licenses/OSL-3.0">https://opensource.org/licenses/OSL-3.0</a>)</li><li>RealNetworks Public Source License Version 1.0 (<a href="https://opensource.org/licenses/RPSL-1.0">https://opensource.org/licenses/RPSL-1.0</a>)</li><li>Reciprocal Public License 1.5 (<a href="https://opensource.org/licenses/RPL-1.5">https://opensource.org/licenses/RPL-1.5</a>)</li></ul><div>As far as I know, the inclusion of a choice-of-law clause has never been considered inconsistent with the OSD (though FSF considers them incompatible with the GPL).</div><div><br></div>Aaron</div></div></div>