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OLS: Enforcing the GPLOLS: Enforcing the GPLPosted Jul 26, 2004 18:49 UTC (Mon) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)In reply to: OLS: Enforcing the GPL by minichaz Parent article: OLS: Enforcing the GPL
But I know of a case of a French to English translation of "libre" to "uncopyrighted". In no language does the equivalent of "free" mean "granting freedom" rather than "having freedom", with, as far as I know, the sole exception of "free speech", which is short for "freedom of speach" ("of" denoting type, not possession) and related to "speak freely". So other languages have what is probably a worse confusion, that the software has been granted self-determination as opposed to being owned by someone, which most easily suggests public domain.
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OLS: Enforcing the GPL Posted Jul 29, 2004 8:24 UTC (Thu) by chepelov (guest, #23542) [Link] Care to give the reference for that translation?There is a corner case, though: the expression "libre de droits", which is more or less equivalent to public domain ("unobstructed by [intellectual property]rights"). But nobody without an intent of infrigement would seriously think of "logiciel libre" to mean "public domain software". (now, mainstream press journalists, that's a different matter....)
OLS: Enforcing the GPL Posted Aug 5, 2004 12:28 UTC (Thu) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link] The original was French, and it was an (American iirc) Reuters translation.
So it was an English speaker who screwed up the translation ...
Cheers,
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