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Re: Help with a japanese license for music in a videogame



2007-11-17 (토), 09:48 +0100, Miriam Ruiz 쓰시길:
> 2007/11/17, dombly@kc4.so-net.ne.jp <dombly@kc4.so-net.ne.jp>:
> 
> > > And it seems to be DFSG-free, so I don't have to remove it. Can anyone
> > > confirm it?
> >
> > No.
> >
> > The author asserts that their products cannot be redistributed freely.
> > See their English page (http://www.geocities.jp/cyber_rainforce/english.html):
> >
> > >> 3.This license forbids other distribution of these sounds(including modified sounds).
> 
> Some japanese folks are not really that proficient in English, and he
> might have wanted to say "allow" instead of "forbids", as the text
> doesn't make any sense otherwise. It's the original japanese license
> that matters to me, not the English abstract. Is it also said there? I
> mean, does also the original license in japanese forbids
> redistribution or it allows it?

The Japanese text clearly forbids redistribution. (Plus other non-DFSG
restrictions...)

Japanese-English machine translation is still far from usefulness.

-- 
Changwoo Ryu <cwryu@debian.org>

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