Request for approval: EUPL (European Union Public Licence) Questions

[John Cowan]

Russ Nelson scripsit:

> It doesn't matter at all that the EUPL steward only intends to make
> reasonable changes.  The problem is that the licensor is agreeing to
> agree with whatever changes the EUPL makes.  My understanding of the
> law says that that is not an enforcible provision of a contract.  You
> can't agree to agree -- you have to agree.  If you don't agree at the
> time, then there's no meeting of the minds, and no contract.

If that were true, it would be impossible to have clauses in contracts
that submit the contracting parties to binding arbitration.  In that
case, a contract drafted by A and agreed to by B requires B to agree to
be bound not only by A's terms but by C's future interpretations of them.
Yet it's done all the time.

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  that His Pity allows them                         --Rudyard Kipling,
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