French GPL-compatible License
Alexandre Dulaunoy
alexandre.dulaunoy at ael.be
Mon Jul 12 07:24:19 UTC 2004
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Ricardo Andere de Mello wrote:
> Brazil had some legal issues regarding to GPL, mainly because it says
> for example that the distributor is not responsible for the software
> (like "provided as is"), but in brazilian law there are some severe laws
> to protect consumers that does not allow this.
In the GNU General Public License (11. and 12.), there is a specific
note for that : TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW (11.) and
UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW (12.).
I don't think this was a real issue.
> Another problem is that only foreign licenses with translations made by
> official law translators are valid, and FSF was not accepting other
> versions of the GPL than the english version.
> that's wy we created the CC-GPL
> http://creativecommons.org/license/cc-gpl?lang=en
Are you sure that the translation is expressing correctly the GNU
General Public License ? If the case is outside the Brazil (for
example the major author is outside Brazil), which version will they
use ?
The translation starts like a good objective but this is a major issue
because of adding a layer complexity. Compatibility between the
translated version and the case law that will sometimes uses one of
the translation or the original version. This is a real mess.
Having a single legal text *is really good point*.
Regarding the CCs, the GNU General Public License is better for
software (and functionnal) author works. For example, the NoDeriv or
NC option is clearly non-free for software and computer program
(doesn't respect the 4 freedoms). Attribution and Share-Alike is
respected by the GNU General Public License.
Just my 0.02 EUR,
adulau
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