Request for approval: EUPL (European Union Public Licence)

[John Cowan]

Bruce Perens scripsit:

> A license doesn't mean anything without the context of a body of law.
> And thus the choice of law is as important as any text in the license. 

+1

> But since OSI can not practically get into the business of evaluation
> of national law, it would be better to require that licenses do not
> specify choice of law.

I don't understand your reasoning here.  Copyright law is about as
international as any law could be, and that's what matters most to
determinations of OSD compliance.

In any case, a license without a choice-of-law clause is really multiple
licenses.  On your view, we should either review such a license against
all legal systems, or else abstain from legal reasoning altogether.

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John Cowan  cowan at ccil.org  http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
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