[Fedora-legal-list] Translated license?

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 13:37 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLegalIssues#aka_the_.22We_Are_Not_Lawyers.22_page 
> 
> The only priority 1 item shown is a very old Docs question regarding
> licensing and translation.  The resource cost of repeatedly translating,
> checking, and maintaining a license in this way seems prohibitive.  We
> ask whether translators can/should *start* on this effort, but do we
> really want to go down that road at all?  If we're not going to carry it
> through to completion, is this item still relevant?

For what it is worth, translated licenses is really failure. No
translated license will hold up in court, and isn't even good legal
advice. To do it properly is... expensive.

~spot