On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 09:56:46AM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Tuesday 16 January 2001, at 11 h 45, the keyboard of Peter Eckersley > <pde@cs.mu.oz.au> wrote: > > > clause requiring legal disputes to be settled under the jurisdiction of the > > State of Virginia, USA, > > I maintain a Python program, which is GPL. I live in France and I'll never > accept such a clause. What can I do? > Well... the answer is complicated. As Ben pointed out, if your program is *just* in Python (no C extensions), you're fine. If you listen to CNRI or BeOpen's lawyers (but not Eben Moglen & the FSF), you're fine. If you can find French laws which say that these clauses are illegal/irrelevant in France, you're fine. Finally, you can stick with Python 1.5.2; I also believe there were rumours about a FSF-encouraged fork of Python 1.5.2 to re-implement all of the features found in Python 2. I have no idea how feasible or likely that is. It's amazing how apparent legal trivialities can suck so much :) -- Peter Eckersley http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~pde (pde@cs.mu.oz.au) TLI: http://www.computerbank.org.au <~~~~.sig temporarily conservative pending divine intervention~~~~> GPG fingerprint: 30BF 6A78 2013 DCFA 5985 E255 9D31 4A9A 7574 65BC
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