[Foundation-l] translation and the GFDL

[geni]

On 7/6/07, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
> Using that argument, it would make sense to ditch the GFDL and use one of
> the Creative Commons licenses. For users there is one license, for lawyers
> there is a legal document that is worded for their different legal systems.
> This way you deal with the license in one language, the language of your
> legal system, wherever that is.

Actually no. For people reading the summery there what they think is a
license. For lawyers and people who read the legal text there will be
a slightly different license. So that comes out as 2 * the number of
languages the licence has been translated into. Throw in all the
variants and the situation with CC is far more complex.


> When you suggest that we need not complicate matters with a translation of
> the license we use, and by posting on this list you make it plain that you
> can read English.. Last time I looked, the overwhelming majority of our
> projects were not in English. :)
>

The majority of our edits are.

Please go and play language politics somewhere else. At the moment it
would not be legal to use translations of tr.pedia articles on any
other project.


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geni