[Gimp-docs] manual license

Kolbjørn Stuestøl kol-stue at online.no
Sun Feb 15 03:30:49 PST 2009


Marco Ciampa skreiv:
> Thanks to all (in particular to Daniel that pointed to me this document
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/translations.html)
>
> I am considering to translate the FDL licence _in_ the manual just
> appending this: 
>
>     This is an unofficial translation of the GNU General Public License into
> language. It was not published by the Free Software Foundation, and does not
> legally state the distribution terms for software that uses the GNU GPL—only
> the original English text of the GNU GPL does that. However, we hope that
> this translation will help language speakers understand the GNU GPL better. 
>
> to the appendix section. This should suffice (I hope).
>   
I'm not a lawyer, but in my opinion this is the way to do it. The 
purpose of  the translation is after all to help non English readers. :-)

Kolbjørn




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