[Gimp-docs] GFDL translations

[Kolbjørn Stuestøl]

To me it looks like a good idea for all languages (- English of course).
Perhaps a short version in the native language with a link to the valid english 
version?
Kolbjoern

Kolbjørn Stuestøl
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marco Ciampa" <ciampix at libero.it>
To: <gimp-docs at lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 5:07 PM
Subject: [Gimp-docs] GFDL translations


> Hello everybody,
> I would ear some comments by all the translation teams on a subject: the
> translation of the GFDL licence under which the GUM is distributed.
>
> I would like to embed into the html/pdf translated version, only the most
> famous unofficial translated italian version (that is this:
> http://www.softwarelibero.it/gnudoc/fdl.it.html) with a clear link to the
> REAL english version that could be distributed _with_ the package but not
> incorporated into the text. Plus a clear text _in_ the maual that states
> that the italian version is _not_ official neither legally valid and that
> only the untranslated english version is official and legal.
>
> This because an english text into a completely translated manual is IMHO a
> nonsense. If someone read the text in italian is clear that he/she is not
> able to read in english. This could even be counter-productive since the
> reader is not able do figure by him/herself what he/she could and could
> not do with the GUM manual (i.e. the licence restrictions).
>
Amen

> I've already seen paper books published in Italy with such a compromise so
> what do you think about it?
>
> bye
>
> -- 
>
> Marco Ciampa
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