Re: Suggestions of David Nusinow, was: RPSL and DFSG-compliance - choice of venue
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 04:55:52PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Brian Nelson wrote:
> > It can be really tough to test NM's who are not native English speakers
> > about licensing issues. Legal text is very different from colloquial
> > English, and non-native speakers are often completely overwhelmed.
> > Hell, even native speakers have difficulty understanding licenses like
> > the graphviz license.
> IMO (and I'm not a native speaker of English and Daniel Silverstone as
> my AM had to go for some clarifications in my P&P as well as the T&S),
> most of the licenses can be understood fairly well even by foreigners
> after some careful reading. After all, there's some logic to them and
> I'd prefer prospective packagers to have the ability to deal with such
> problems.
> I may not like the fact, but I do believe that a certain level of
> English proficiency is a prerequisite for successful contributions to
> Debian as a developer.
Of course, but the level of English proficiency needed to be a useful
contributor to Debian is much lower than the level required to fully
understand legal texts, IME.
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