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From: Richard M. Stallman
Subject: www/licenses translations.html
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 12:14:59 +0000

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       15/06/02 12:14:59

Modified files:
        licenses       : translations.html 

Log message:
        Say explicitly that the FSF does not approve translations as valid.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/licenses/translations.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.281&r2=1.282

Patches:
Index: translations.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/licenses/translations.html,v
retrieving revision 1.281
retrieving revision 1.282
diff -u -b -r1.281 -r1.282
--- translations.html   9 Feb 2015 16:26:01 -0000       1.281
+++ translations.html   2 Jun 2015 12:14:59 -0000       1.282
@@ -11,12 +11,16 @@
 translations</h3>
 
 <p>
-The reason the FSF does not approve these translations as officially
-valid is that checking them would be difficult and expensive (needing
-the help of bilingual lawyers in other countries).  Even worse, if an
-error did slip through, the results could be disastrous for the whole
-free software community.  As long as the translations are unofficial,
-they can't do any harm.</p>
+The FSF does not approve license translations as officially valid.
+The reason is that checking them would be difficult and expensive
+(needing the help of bilingual lawyers in other countries).  Even
+worse, if an error did slip through, the results could be disastrous
+for the whole free software community.  As long as the translations
+are unofficial, they can't do any legal harm.</p>
+
+<p>To underscore the fact that these translations are not officially
+valid, we do not publish translations.  To make that clear, we don't
+post them on gnu.org, only link to them.</p>
 
 <p>The purpose of linking to translations is to help more people
 understand our licenses.  In order for them to do that, translations
@@ -397,7 +401,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2015/02/09 16:26:01 $
+$Date: 2015/06/02 12:14:59 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>



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