unclear formulations in license_disc.wml

[Philipp Frauenfelder <pfrauenf@niederglatt.lugs.ch>]

Hi,

in the course of tranlating intro/license_disc.wml to german I 
found some sentences which were not that clear to me. I know the 
document is still under development but perhaps it's only a 
misunderstanding of some sort. As there is no author's address 
(would be reasonable for a page under development) I write to 
the whole list.

First one is in the good/bad part of GPL:

"Anyone who releases software using the GPL does not consider 
these restrictions bad, because it prevents others from making 
money off of their hard work while allowing others to use it."

I understand it like this: "Anyone who releases software using 
the GPL does not consider these restrictions bad, because it 
prevents others from making money off of their hard work while 
not sharing their work with the public."

Second sentence is in the section "Some common mistakes in 
self-written licenses" in "Requiring that all changes to the 
software be reported to the author":

"History has shown that as long as development on the original 
code doesn't stall branches only succeed if there are other 
forces driving the split."

My understanding of this: "History has shown that stalled 
branches from development of the original source only succeed if 
there are other strong forces inside the project driving the 
split."

Could please somebody make this clear. Either the formulations 
or that I need some more english lessons (which I do anyway) :-).

Regrads,
Philipp