[vorbis] Vorbis license in non-English languages?

[Nathan I. Sharfi]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Chris Whitworth wrote:

> Hi;
>
> I emailed monty at xiph.org about this before I noticed the mailing list
> existed; I suppose it can't ask to hurt here too.
>
> We're about to release a product which has support for multiple languages;
> as a result, the license text and documentation has been translated into
> each of these languages. As the product includes Ogg Vorbis playback using
> libvorbis, we've obviously got to include the appropriate license text
> with the product. Has the Vorbis license been translated into any other
> languages - specifically, French, German, Spanish and Italian? It's not a
> major problem if it hasn't, but our test department can be a bit picky
> about these things :)
>
> Cheers;
> Chris

I seriously doubt it; legally binding license translation is both expensive
and error-prone.

That need not stop you from putting nonauthoritative
license translations in the product, though.

...though something else might. IANAL.
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