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Tim Peters tim_one at email.msn.com
Tue Sep 12 05:54:46 EDT 2000 
[Suchandra Thapa]
>     From my understanding, CNRI is located in Virginia

Yes.

> and so it makes sense for them to want the license to be interpeted
> under the laws of the state they're in.

That too.

> I really don't think that this is a plot to use UCITA to carry
> out some underhanded scheme.

Indeed, I've seen email from Dr. Kahn critical of UCITA.

> I would be more worried if CNRI wanted their license to be interpeted
> under some state that they have no connection with.

I do wish people could refrain from reading so much into these twiddly
little details of the license.  This is a great case in point:  *if* it
turns out that the FSF has some particular problem with Virginia law, but
wouldn't with, for example, New York law, I bet CNRI might just go along
with changing that.  They simply don't want the license interpreted in
near-arbitrary ways by random yahoo courts.  choice-of-law clauses are
common as dirt, apparently because they work.

or-maybe-just-fail-less-often<wink>-ly y'rs  - tim
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