Re: English licenses on non English speaking countries

[bruce@perens.com]

From: "Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona" <jgb@gsyc.inf.uc3m.es>
> As long as I know, the international legislation on copyright
> should be enough to grant the validity of the English version
> everywhere. The rationale is as follows: By default, you have no right 
> to distribute, modify, etc. a copyrighted work. *No right*. Only an
> specific license can give you that right. So, you can either feel
> comfortable with the license, in any language it is written, or just
> ignore it. But by ignoring it, you can only do whatever you can do "by 
> default": no distribution, no modification, etc.
> 
> So, in my opinion (I'm not a lawyer, anyway), there is no
> problem at all. This is the most common opinion I've heard of.

That's a pretty good explanation.

I guess Spain is not in the European Common Market?

	Thanks

	Bruce