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Is it possible to have the contract be explicitly split into two wordings, one for each legal system?
by Kinrany 3y ago
Is it possible to have the contract be explicitly split into two wordings, one for each legal system?
- eru 3y agoThat probably depends on the legal systems in question.
- jkaplowitz 3y agoThere are more than two legal systems in the world.
- hnfong 3y agoI think the GP was assuming there's only two parties to a contract, thus only two jurisdictions need to be considered.
- Kinrany 3y agoYep
- jkaplowitz 3y agoAnd yet, free and open source software licenses are meant for licensors and licensees from around the world, so far more than just two jurisdictions for any of the common licenses, and rarely for only one or two jurisdictions even for more custom licenses except in the case where the license is different per jurisdiction or where almost all (licensor, licensee) pairs are in one or two jurisdictions.
- patmorgan23 3y agoProbably not. It's so much easier to choose one jurisdiction and do everything there. For multinationals they'll set up a legal entity in each jurisdiction and rewrite their agreements to be compliant in each place. International law sucks and it's 100x more expensive than enforcing a domestic agreement.