Epyrus • Re: Unclear about the License

So, I think I've almost got it in a state where I could release binaries safely again...

I ran into another interesting landmine that isn't directly related to licensing confusion with me accidentally misrepresenting myself as Mozilla, but falls in a very similar category. Essentially, it turned out that buried somewhere in a service agreement that isn't obvious at all how to make visible... there's a choice-of-law clause that basically says any disputes involving the add-ons server or the updates server would be governed by California law. Worse, it doesn't say Mozilla, it actually is configured to use my application name and branding so it would have looked like I wrote it in there. When in fact Mozilla left it in there. The reason why that's bad is... well, California law is very, very consumer-protection heavy and would give people all kinds of excuses to sue the person providing the Epyrus add-ons server and update server. Which... is not even me. The result of these hidden terms that are not even easy to find without clicking on a link in "About your rights" was essentially... people could, in theory, sue Moonchild under California law if they were not happy with how he was running the Epyrus add-ons server, without even realizing it.

I sort of changed that to Delaware law instead of California law in a panic because I know the corporate default is actually Delaware for a reason... you get more predictable outcomes and they tend to limit liability in a way that's friendly to corporations and LLCs, which is why so many places incorporate there and/or use them in a choice-of-law clause. I don't know for sure if that was the right choice, or if I should have just deleted the choice-of-law clause, but my instinct said Delaware was the safer choice.