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Tille corrected some spelling mistakes. I will use the diff to improve my english spelling!

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<title>News from the LDP mailing lists</title>
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<title>is the Gnu Free Documentation License (GFDL) free or not?</title>
<title>Is the Gnu Free Documentation License (GFDL) free or not?</title>
<para><ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4261:200304:daodcainiabimpblanlg">Sergiusz Pawlowicz</ulink> found a <ulink url="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/20/1357236">discussion on a different list</ulink> on legal issues around the http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and the Debian project declaring this license non-free.</para>
<para><ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4261:200304:daodcainiabimpblanlg">Sergiusz Pawlowicz</ulink> found a <ulink url="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/20/1357236"> discussion on a different list</ulink> on legal issues around the <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html">GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL)</ulink> and the Debian project declaring this license non-free.</para>
<para><ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4262:200304:daodcainiabimpblanlg">Colin Watson</ulink> pointed out that this discussion was just affecting version 1.2 of GFDL; not the much more widely used version 1.1. He suggested authors should stick with GFDL 1.1 for the time being.</para>
<para><ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4264:200304:lmhfnpcknmcmihlmfonf">David Lawyer</ulink> mentioned the issue that the license requires a copy of itself to be in any copy of the document that is licensed under it, which is frquently omitted by the author. But he helt that this would usually not be an real-world legal issue as there will be no judge as long as nobody is sueing.</para>
<para><ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4265:200304:lmhfnpcknmcmihlmfonf">Charles Curley</ulink>suggested that people who have objections against version 1.2 of GFDL should not only raise them but come up with proposals what else to put in as well.</para>
<para><ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4264:200304:lmhfnpcknmcmihlmfonf">David Lawyer</ulink> mentioned the issue that the license requires a copy of itself to be in any copy of the document that is licensed under it, a practice frequently omitted by the author. But he held that this would usually not be a real-world legal issue as there will be no judge as long as nobody is suing.</para>
<para><ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4265:200304:lmhfnpcknmcmihlmfonf">Charles Curley</ulink>suggested that people who have objections against version 1.2 of GFDL should not only raise them but come up with proposals for amelioration.</para>
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<title>Free Multilingual Technology Base</title>
<para><ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4294:200304:lpikjdgjjahjolggllhl">Alexander Voropay</ulink> is asking if anyone knows about a software to build a free multilingual technology base that would probably serve the LDP translation project as well as other i18n projects very well (and might free all the non-english speakers of sometimes bad to just not understandable translations of terms).</para>
<para><ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4296:200304:lpikjdgjjahjolggllhl">Binh</ulink> is working on something like that in his/her spare time and has already collected a few 10,000 words. He thinks of releasing this to the LDP in the near future.</para>
<para><ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4296:200304:lpikjdgjjahjolggllhl">Binh</ulink> is working on something like that in his/her spare time and has already collected a few 10,000 words, which could be released to the LDP in the near future.</para>
<para>Note from the editor: How about an international firstname directory that would provide for a gender lookup. There are names I just can't tell if they are male or female. Apologies if the editors of this news ever mess with you first name.</para>
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