[Gimp-docs] manual license

[Marco Ciampa]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:24:11AM +0100, Daniel Nylander wrote:
> fre 2009-02-13 klockan 00:07 +0100 skrev Marco Ciampa:
> > Since it seems that the GIMP manual license should not be translated, is it
> > possible to put it in a way that the license text could be not po-exported?
> 
> Of course it could be translated (even though only the original English
> text is legally interpreted).
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/translations.html
> 
> Daniel
> 
This IMHO pose a problem: linux distro should always include the english
manual version just to have the legal version of the licence.
Plus if I would like to print it I cannot use the pdf version of the manual 
just as it is output from the "make pdf" command but I have tu cut
& past from the english version just to follow the licence requirements.
Remember that a translation is _not_ legally valid.

Am I wrong? Please consider that from the point of view of a translator
(mine), the FDL translated on the printed version of the manual is really a 
*good thing*. If it was possible I will do it immediatly.

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Marco Ciampa

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