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choosing a favorable jurisdiction is a very corporate thing to do, I'm not sure it's the sort of thing we want to promote in our freedom communities, since its point is generally to favor the corporate licensor who already got to choose the licensing terms. such terms tend to make it more difficult for the other party to initiate or even defend from a legal dispute, unless they happen to be under the same jurisdiction. from the POV of licensor-initiated enforcement, it makes little difference, since they can already initiate the legal procedures wherever they like, so AFAICT what the addition of such terms would accomplish would be to limit the possibilities of user-initiated enforcement against intermediate distributors. why would it be in our interest to impose such constraints? would they even apply? jurisdictions often override such constraints as abusive