Re: [off topic] multi-lingual contracts (was Re: Time for some Clarity (KDE, Qt, Open Source...)
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 11:52:33AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
> > What if the contract is in spanish? can the french compnay then break it
> > with legal impunity? DO they need to draw up all of the contracts in both
> > languages and sign ALL copies?
>
> Having done a certain amount of legal contract stuff between Britain and Spain,
> you just have to have everything in both languages, and you get to pay
> expensive bi-lingual lawyers, who have qualifications that are accepted in both
> countries, to rubber stamp the translation as a true and valid translation, at
> several hundred pounds per rubber stamp :-(
What a silly silly silly world we live in...and people don't grasp why
I don't think governments and laws are good things....
what ever happend to that most excellent movement for a universal language?
Time to bring back esperanto!
> This topic is pointless BTW, unless someone wants to cough up a few hundred
...
> question (lets say the best part of $10,000 to cover Europe, what about the
> rest of the world ? Who's copyright law holds in Antarctica ?)
I would agree it is pointless (I believe that was the point I was trying
to make in my original message...that to actually consider what the licence
means in other countries is too complex of an issue to even think
about persueing)
> Meanwhile, there still has been no test case to prove that the GPL is worth
> anything in the USA, let alone anywhere else.
which makes it even more of a moot point :)
if it hasn't stood up to a test case here...then worring about translations
for other countries is even worst...cuz after all that work translating
I would assume it would then have to stand up to test cases
in each of those other countries as well before you could really say it
is worth the paper (or equivalent) it was translated on
so now that thats done with....and new/cool packages out there I should
know about? :) anything worth packaging? :)
-Steve
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