Re: GFDL translations

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Hi Marco,

On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 10:14:20AM +0200, Marco Ciampa wrote:
> For the reasons that you have cutted by this reply, IMHO it is a nonsense
> having a license in english in an italian manual. Who does read (and
> understand) it? The reader? Then why he/she should read the italian manual?
> The english is more complete/updated...if you can directly read it...
> 
> Got the point?
Yeh - I understand your concerns. But here it comes to applicable law
and what people are allowed to with our manual.

I'm not a law expert, but what I know of is the fact, that the italian
or german (or any other european translation of the license) doesn't
apply for any legal concerns. The english original applies. 

So wether our readers can understand the english original or not, it's
the original one under which the manual is distributed. The italian
translation is just to help our reader to be able to understand what the
license is about. We need to ship the english original anyways...

> I'm sorry but, I know my compatriots knowledge of the english
> language... :-( I really want to lower any linguistic barrier on using
> free software and together with spreading the knowledge of what the
> free software really is.  A translated license could be really useful
> for this.
It is indeed, but it wouldn't fulfill it's purpose I'm afraid :(

PS: I'm sending a copy to the mailinglist, because I think this was a
topic discussed on the list.

Cheers,
-- 
Roman Joost
www: http://www.romanofski.de
email: romanofski@xxxxxxxx

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