On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:02:27 +0000, Stephan Kulow wrote:

>> I thought we said earlier that license should NOT be translated,
>> due to too many possible interpretations, and due to the fact that
>> translators are probably not lawyers ?
>> 
>> Or ?
>> 
>Well, users still want to know what the license is about, no? It
>can't be a one-to-one translation though due to the problems outlined
>above.

The main problem is probably that the translation of a license is not
legally binding. Apart from that, there are good translations to quite
a few languages at least for the GPL (see
www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html#translations)

I think this problem is just under thorough discussion in the docbook
list.

Regards,

Thomas