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Re: License

 

Seems reasonable to me too. But lets wait for CC guys what they say. Just to
be sure.

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Regards
Martin Lukeš
P.S.: Please keep the communication history


On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Daniel Schury <Surst@xxxxxxx> wrote:

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> Should we? I'm not an expert in this thing, but why not for example use
> the german port for germany? Parts of this license quote german laws,
> not american, which seems quite reasonable for me?
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> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
> Daniel Schury
>
> Am 04.03.2010 20:36, schrieb Ilya Haykinson:
> > The versions that you get from the international page are the ported
> > licenses for particular jurisdictions
> > We should be using the unported license most likely
> >
> > I will get on a call later this week or next week with the CC folks and
> > figure this out
> >
> > -ilya
> >
> > 2010/3/4 Martin Lukeš <martin.meridius@xxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:martin.meridius@xxxxxxxxx>>
> >
> >     As you can see from my previous post I used translation directly
> >     from Creative Commons. Other translators should do the same I think.
> >     In case there isn't translated license the original English will be
> >     used. And since we won't translate license text by ourself I see no
> >     reason why we should inform them.
> >
> >     Translated licenses from Creative Commons are here
> >     http://creativecommons.org/international/
> >
> >
> >     ---
> >     Regards
> >     Martin Lukeš
> >     P.S.: Please keep the communication history
> >
> >
> >     On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Elan Kugelmass
> >     <epkugelmass@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:epkugelmass@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >         Can we look into sending this upstream to CC? They might want to
> >         have their lawyers look at our translations. This is legalese,
> >         after all.
> >         Though, given the absence of translated licenses in the first
> >         place, they might not have the staff in place to check our work.
> >
> >
> >         2010/3/3 Kevin Godby <godbyk@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:godbyk@xxxxxxxxx
> >>
> >
> >             2010/3/3 Martin Lukeš <martin.meridius@xxxxxxxxx
> >             <mailto:martin.meridius@xxxxxxxxx>>:
> >             > Hi Kevin
> >             > I pushed Czech translation from
> >             > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/cz/legalcode
> >             and I put it to
> >             > backmatter/ directory under name license-cs.tex
> >             > I also tried to do a bit of a LaTeX formating on it and as
> >             far as I could
> >             > see (thanks to "Make translated PDF" - great button) it
> >             looks fine.
> >
> >             Great -- thanks!
> >
> >             > If I may have a question...
> >             > Do you plan to edit "Make translated PDF" button so it
> >             will automatically
> >             > select appropriate license file? If not present, then it
> >             would use original
> >             > (English) file.
> >
> >             Yes. As soon as Launchpad lets me push this code, it'll use
> >             the proper
> >             license file and fall back on English if it doesn't have a
> >             particular
> >             translation.
> >
> >             > And second, but I don't know if it isn't more question for
> >             Josh. As if there
> >             > will be an extra .tex file for translated license then
> >             Roseta probably
> >             > shouldn't ask for its translation again. If this is doable
> >             of course. ;)
> >
> >             I *think* that the way I've done it may hide the license
> >             text from the
> >             translation software so it won't know anything about it.
> >              I'm going to
> >             add a note to translators in the license.tex file.  We'll
> >             see how it
> >             works soon. :-)
> >
> >             --Kevin
> >
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