English licenses on non English speaking countries

1999-08-31 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
[ Don't Cc: me, I'm on -legal. ] Hi, this is the best place I can think of to ask this question ... I have read several times that some countries don't accept legal documents (such as licenses, please correct me if a license doesn't fall into this category) in languages other than their off

Re: ITP: tcp-wrappers -- Wietse Venema's TCP Wrappers

1999-08-31 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Edward John M. Brocklesby wrote: > Maybe, but this goes against accepted practice. Maybe someone should get > Wieste to clarify it. Has anyone done this yet? Wichert. -- == This combination of bytes forms a m

Re: English licenses on non English speaking countries

1999-08-31 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
Hi, Marcelo! The main problem here (in my opinion) is that we cannot distribute a program under a new license. Only the author can. And translating a license is making a new license... In many cases you have also major practical problems. For instance, translating GPL int