Re: Translations of GPL
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 02:09:17PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> Indeed. And it would be questionable if a translation of the GPL would be
> GPL compatible. It would at least be very expensive (lawyer wise) to verify
> this.
> > In my opinion a German cookie database makes only sense for people
> > who understand a German license and not necessarily have to understand
> > an English one.
>
> Yes, but here you have to also look at the higher goal of world domination
> ;)
>
> > How to cope with that fact, which could occure in several other
> > cases?
>
> I think it is best to stick with known licenses, not with variations of them
> (and translations are variations).
Yes.
Maybe a solution is to include a GPL-de doc with the package, but make its
license the original GPL. That way, german users can read the
translation of the license, and everyone happy.
Jordi
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