Problem: Chinese court generally require licenses be written in Chinese language. So still, I need some mechanism to make l10n work.
Sent from my iPhone > On 2013年10月21日, at 22:34, Luis Villa <l...@lu.is> wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 6:29 AM, David Woolley <for...@david-woolley.me.uk> >> wrote: >> On 21/10/13 07:39, Maxthon Chan wrote: >> >>> >>> There is a project, Creative Commons, that focuses on providing free >>> license for art, music and works alike. They tackled the localisation >>> issue well, by providing localised licenses that is interchangeable with >> >> No they don't. All the licences seem to be in English. > > Max is correct; you are wrong. Deeds are translated in some cases, but > licenses also undergo what CC calls "porting": a combination of translation > and adaptation to local jurisdictions. You can see this, even if you're only > an English-speaker, by noting that CC has several different licenses in > English: > > e.g., CC BY "England and Wales": > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/legalcode > CC BY United States: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/legalcode > CC BY Scotland: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/scotland/legalcode > > Max, it is important to know that CC *now believes they got this wrong*, and > will stop porting licenses starting in 4.0, focusing instead on translations. > Some discussion of that here: > http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-licenses/2013-September/007451.html > >>> each other, even in the copyleft variants. > > Do not take for granted that the licenses (before 4.0) are interchangeable. > For example, some (but not all!) of the EU Share Alike licenses in 3.0 deal > with database rights. > > Luis > _______________________________________________ > License-discuss mailing list > License-discuss@opensource.org > http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
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