2011/8/22 Huib Laurens <[email protected]>: > Isn't it normal practice to place above the legal text a note like "this is > a translated text and it can be incorrect. Please see the language version > for the offical version" ?
Yes. But legal code is in case of real legal conflict. You got to the court with legal code of licence and provide proves that the conditions of it were broken by the person or institution you want to sue. In many jursidictions a legal code in foreign language has no legal value at all, as well as non-official translation. The law requires the formal, official translation of such the licence to the official language of the country to be taken into consideration by legal system of that country. Therefore CC has a system of formal approval of translations of its deed unlocalised versions of licences and also a system o maiking localised versions of them. Odbl licence is made to be working in all EU and EU-affiliated countries, but without formal translation it does not work in most of EU countries :-) So, if OSM wants to force their users to accept Odlb licence it should provide the formal legal translations of it or ask the issuer of the licence to do that translation. -- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
