Zhenqing Li nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/11/09 13:39:
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> Dear all:
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> I like POV-Ray and I think it's a good software to be introduced in my
> home country. But language is a problem for ordinary Chinese people, I
> want to translate all the POV-Ray user-tutorial and user-reference into
> Chinese to help people get into this perfect software with less
> difficulties. I checked the license, there is no separated license for
> its documents' distribution. So I think it may follow that of the code
> as well. Since it's POV-Ray license but not GPL, I read it and found it
> "prohibit the derive from source code". I am confused if translation of
> the document is some kind of derivation too. Could anybody answer me
> this question? Thanks!
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> Zhenqing LI
I don't think that a translation of the documentation will cause problems. In my 
eyes, a translation is not a derivative work. It's the same work made available 
to peoples who can't read the original language.

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Alain
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