On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 15:29 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 05:28:45PM +0400, Dmitry Butskoy wrote: > > Randy Wyatt wrote: > > >Why wouldn't a hard copy of the GPL suffice ? > > Yep, but GPL is not approrved officially in our (and many other) > > countries. I know that some users do notarially certified translation of > > GPL, but it costs money too. (Hopefully the ranslation of GPL only is > > enough, not BSD, MPL etc.) > > since Russia is a member of the Berne Convention, if I recall well, some > lawyer consider that there shouldn't be a need for a translation and > even that no translation is better. I know that it depends on the lawyer > since, in France there is a dispute against those who think that since > the GPL has some clauses that don't translate easily to french law it is > not applicable and those who think that under the Bern Convention the > GPL should be reinterpretated in the context of the French laws. > > In any case I am not convinced that this discussion belongs to > fedora-devel-list, although I am not sure that there exists a list about > those kind of issues. This is definitively a more general Free Software problem. The law there is obviously broken but there is nothing you can except lobbying for amendments in appropriate forums. Meanwhile I guess the easiest thing you can do is to print the license agreement shown to you by the fedora installer, in English, and show it to the authorities. Simo. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
