Re: where is this licence going ?
On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 13:01:23 +0100, Richard Braakman wrote:
> > Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions,
> > including translations in other languages, of this manual under the
> > conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulted work
> > is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this
> > one and if translated must be stated in a translation approuved by Mario
> > Motta.
>
> I'd like to see the last sentence clarified. Do all translations require
> approval? If not, what does it mean?
In the FSF documentation copyright it unambiguously refers to the
copyright/permission statement (translations of it require approval), not to
the documentation itself.
I see now that in this version it is ambiguous; I'd like to see it clarified
too.
Ray
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