On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 09:10:48AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 02:25:21PM +0000, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > <<snip>> > > > No. It's a "eurospeakised" version, like this: > > > GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LISENSE > > Version 2, June 1991 > > > Kopyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Softvare Fondation, Inc. > > 59 Templ Plase, Suite 330, Bozton, MA 02111-1307 USA > > Everyone is permited to kopy and diztribute verbatim kopies > > of zis lisense dokument, but kanging it is not aloved. > > You should not use this as the license under which your program is being > distributed. Automatic transcription of the license in such a manner > may introduce ambiguities not present in the original; this may cause > people to be wary of using your code under the terms of the GPL, because > they're not certain that it extends the same freedoms as the original; > and it may cause others to interpret the license as allowing them to do > things that are prohibited by the original. If you are interested in > the freedoms guaranteed by the GPL, I would encourage you to license > your software under the GPL itself, and not under a 'translated' version > that has uncertain legal status. > > > Perhaps this can be accepted as a "translation" of the GPL-2 ? > > Because there is no license granted to modify the wording of the GPL > itself, you would need to contact the FSF if you wanted to create a > derived work from the text of the GPL and distribute it. I can't > imagine that they would object to such a work, but if you want to > protect yourself legally against all eventualities, the way to go is to > ask them. > > Then you could include this translation of the GPL as an example > document with your eurospeak package, if you wanted to. > > Cheers, > Steve Langasek > postmodern programmer
After a bit of thinking (sanity-check?), I decided to go for the "plain" GPL-2, unchanged and not "eurospeakised". Since the GPL does not allow itself to be modified, I chose not to include a eurospeakised version of the GPL in the package - this got relegated to an example in the man-page, showing users how to produce this themselves. Thank you to all who responded. This legalese stuff seems like a minefield to me :-) -- Karl E. Jørgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.karl.jorgensen.com /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign x - Say NO to HTML in email / \ - Say NO to Word documents in email (and Macros!)
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