On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 11:19:27AM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > > The license is binding on the licensee, > > Not in the same way, assuming it really is a licence, rather than a > contract.
Maybe; if I modify software and distribute the result, and I misunderstand the license, I can still be up an unpleasant creek (though not as bad as if I violated the license intentionally). > > who should not have to be bound > > by a text in a language that they don't understand properly. > > (The only solution available to me, in that situation, is to not touch the > > software.) > > Then you have a solution. Use it. But please don't try to force your > solution on other people who may be perfectly happy, or even happier, > with a licence in French. I don't think "just don't use the software" is an acceptable "solution". -- Glenn Maynard