translations of CC licenses

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Thu Jan 8 15:49:52 EST 2004


Jean-Christophe Barnoud wrote:
> It does help ! If I understand properly :

You do.  Good summary.

> The licensor chooses the national legal framework and top level 
> conditions for the license, this leads to a legally binding text in the 
> language of the national legal framework selected.  If this language is 
> not English, an unofficial translation of this precise license text into 
> English (at least) should be available at some future time.
> 
> In the case of share alike licenses, one has to allow for the inevitable 
> (hopefully small) discrepancies of rights conceded under the same top 
> level conditions but different national legal frameworks that may apply 
> to successive generations of his work.

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   Mike Linksvayer
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