On 25 August 2013 07:26, Maurizio Napolitano <[email protected]>wrote:
> A group of italian lawyers started to translate the website of > opendatacommons. > For the italian OpenStreetMap Comunity is very important have > an italian version of the ODbL. > > During this translation process they have identified a section of the > document that doesn't seem consistent. > > They started from this website http://opendatacommons.org/** > licenses/by/1.0/ <http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/> and say > that in the section 9.1 there is a reference to the section 4.8 > They say that maybe should be 8.4 > Francis is absolutely correct here that this should be 4.4 (this was an error that arose because in the ODbL that section is 4.8 and the ODC-By is heavily based on the ODbL). > It's right? > > Another question: > once finished the translation, what is the procedure to add the italian > version to the main site? > In general we are somewhat wary about putting up translations because translations carry no official status and should not be used to actually license stuff :-). This practise follows the FSF approach but differs from e.g. Creative Commons. This policy was adopted after some discussion the basic issue being of both intentional and unintentional changes arising as translation occurred plus the inability of Open Data Commons to guarantee the correctness and validity of various different translations. Thus for Open Data Commons licenses there is only one version of the license and that is the english one. Translations are, of course, very welcome since they enable people to better understand the basic contents of the license but they should be used for guidance purposes and should not be be used for actual licensing (for that use the "official" license). Rufus > Thanks a lot! > > ______________________________**_________________ > odc-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/**listinfo/odc-discuss<http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/odc-discuss> > Unsubscribe: > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/**options/odc-discuss<http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/odc-discuss> > -- * Rufus Pollock Founder and Executive Director | skype: rufuspollock | @rufuspollock<https://twitter.com/rufuspollock> The Open Knowledge Foundation <http://okfn.org/> Empowering through Open Knowledge http://okfn.org/ | @okfn <http://twitter.com/OKFN> | OKF on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/OKFNetwork>| Blog <http://blog.okfn.org/> | Newsletter<http://okfn.org/about/newsletter> *
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