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Re: [LUG] Windows Vista

 

On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:37:07 +0000
Neil Williams wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 16:30 +0000, Grant Sewell wrote:
> > I remember that Mandrake used to do this but I've not really
> > installed Mandrake (or Mandriva) since about v10.2 and I can't
> > remember if they do anymore or not.
> 
> A translation of the GPL has no legal weight - the FSF say so
> themselves. The GPL is in English and the only enforceable meaning of
> the GPL is what is written in the English version.

My bad... just been back over it and it seems it was a Mandrake license
*not* the GPL they had translated into many languages.  Still the
points about legal terms being different in other languages, and
difficult to translate, would stand though.

Thanks Neil.

Grant.

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