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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:30:03 +0100
From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
To: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/ru/copyright freebsd-license.sgml
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On 2009.11.16 20:37:15 +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Rene Ladan wrote:
> 
> RL> > ?FreeBSD doc repository
> RL> >
> RL> > ?Modified files:
> RL> > ? ?ru/copyright ? ? ? ? freebsd-license.sgml
> RL> > ?Log:
> RL> > ?Use less mechanical translation [1]
> RL> >
> RL> > ?1: http://cylib.iit.nau.edu.ua/Mirrors/ask.km.ru/unics/bsd.html
> RL> >
> RL> > ?PR: ? ? www/132091
> RL> >
> RL> > ?Revision ?Changes ? ?Path
> RL> > ?1.9 ? ? ? +16 -14 ? ?www/ru/copyright/freebsd-license.sgml
> RL> >
> RL> 
> RL> I was wondering if the license always applies in each country if
> RL> translated literally.
> RL> I can imagine that some conditions in the disclaimer (the capital text
> RL> part) conflict or are null and void in some countries.
> 
> Well, correctness (and especially legal one) is another story; I just switched 
> from near-to-unusable wordings to next-to-readable ;-)

While I think it's a good idea to translate the license so people can
easily understand it, perhaps it would be a good idea to add short a
footer stating that the English version is the authoritative / "legal
version" - just to avoid any misunderstandings.

Just my 0.01c.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen