[Fedora-legal-list] FDClone license

[Mamoru Tasaka]

Mamoru Tasaka wrote, at 10/22/2009 03:30 AM +9:00:
> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote, at 10/21/2009 10:16 PM +9:00:
>> On 10/20/2009 11:15 AM, Mamoru Tasaka wrote:
>>> Hello:
>>>
>>> Now I am considering to package FDClone [1]. However FDClone
>>> uses very unique license. Note that FDClone developer says that the official
>>> license is the one written in Japanese [2] and  the link [3] is only
>>> the translation into English.
>>>
>>> [1] http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA012337/soft/fd/ (in Japanese)
>>> [2] http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA012337/soft/fd/LICENSES.txt
>>> [3] http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA012337/soft/fd/LICENSES.eng.txt
>> Mamoru,
>>
>> The English translation is very confusing. It would be very helpful if a
>> better translation of the original license was made available.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> ~tom
> 
> Well, then I may have to try to translate Japanese license text into English, 
> which will take some time (as I am not a laywer).

So I tried to translate the Japanese FDclone license into English
by myself. I hope that my translation will be more readable.

http://mtasaka.fedorapeople.org/Review_request/FDclone/LICENSE.en.retranslated.txt

Regards,
Mamoru