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).
I like this approach and i'm also agree.
In any case i think a section with a list of the unofficial translation
with a introduction like "If you use an odc license you have to use the
official version in english, this section is created only to give the
possibility to understand better the terms of license, but has an
invalid legal meaning" should be usefull.
In this case what is the kind of strategy? We publish the license in a
website (eg. it.okfn.org ) and you link the translation on the official
website or you host the translation in a section "unofficial
translations" or we publish without a reference from the original website?
Thanks a lot!
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