John Darrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 01:21:49PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > "Patrick Brunier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Please note the copyright statement inside the french manual. > > FSF isn't mentioned. > > According to the person who contacted me, it isn't a translation > of the English version of the manual, so this isn't too > surprising. > > But he does say that it is "mainly based on it" ie, a derivative work. > As such, I'm not sure that they've fully complied with Section 4 of > the FDL.
I don't think that "mainly based on it" means that it *has* to be a derivative work. It might just mean that the PSPP documentation is the main source of information used while preparing it. One might fairly say that the PSPP documentation is "mainly based on" information obtained from reading the SPSS documentation, but the PSPP documentation is *not* a derivative work of the SPSS documentation. I haven't read the French documentation (I've barely paged through it) so I don't know whether this is the case. If it is a derivative work, then we'll have to be a little more assertive, I guess. -- "I don't want to learn the constitution and the declaration of independence (marvelous poetry though it be) by heart, and worship the flag and believe that there is a god and the dollar is its prophet." --Maarten Wiltink in the Monastery _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
