% FIXME-LATER: Section header needed here about choice of law.

% FIXME-LATER: reword into tutorial

%% Some have asked us to address the difficulties of internationalization

%% by including, or permitting the inclusion of, a choice of law

%% provision.  We maintain that this is the wrong approach.  Free

%% software licenses should not contain choice of law clauses, for both

%% legal and pragmatic reasons.  Choice of law clauses are creatures of

%% contract, but the substantive rights granted by the GPL are defined

%% under applicable local copyright law. Contractual free software

%% licenses can operate only to diminish these rights.  Choice of law

%% clauses also raise complex questions of interpretation when works of

%% software are created by combination and extension.  There is also the

%% real danger that a choice of law clause will specify a jurisdiction

%% that is hostile to free software principles.

%% % FIXME-LATER: reword into tutorial, \ref to section 7.

%% Our revised version of section 7 makes explicit our view that the

%% inclusion of a choice of law clause by a licensee is the imposition of

%% an additional requirement in violation of the GPL.  Moreover, if a

%% program author or copyright holder purports to supplement the GPL with

%% a choice of law clause, section 7 now permits any licensee to remove

%% that clause.

% FIXME-LATER: does this need to be a section, describing how it was out then in