On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 18:06 +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
Thanks for the responses. I think I understand them. For this particular time, I think it's a shame that German law permits English-language agreements between two Germans, in a way, but it probably makes things simpler overall for free software.
As frontiers dilute more and more, the need for a global language arises.
English is probably the simplest of the most spoken languages (although by far not the most spoken), so it would be a shame if two people on one country couldn't make an agreement in another language because of the law.
The law is there to help the existence of justice, so it would be terribly unfair if there had to be a portuguese GPL for me to legally use most free software out there.
Hence, requiring it would be unjust.
Rui