[lg policy] iPhone app agreement and Quebec language policy

[Dennis Baron]

Reading the "secret" iPhone app agreement released by the Electronic  
Frontier Foundation, I find that this is last paragraph of the  
contract that Apple requires all its iPhone application developers to  
sign:

"If You are located in the province of Quebec, Canada, the following  
clause applies: The parties hereby confirm that they have requested  
that this Agreement and all related documents be drafted in English.  
Les parties ont exigé que le présent contrat et tous les documents  
connexes soient rédigés en anglais" (p.19).

Does anyone know if this represents a violation of Quebec's language  
law (it seems to me that it would), or is this standard contract  
language used by anglophone corporations doing business in Quebec?  
After all, it's Apple, rather than all of the parties, requiring  
English. No English, no app.

Dennis

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Dennis Baron
Professor of English and Linguistics
Department of English
University of Illinois
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