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Re: Community Feedback: IETF Trust Agreement Issues

2013-08-08 17:02:38

On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:21 AM, Jorge Contreras <cntreras(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> 
wrote:



Can you elaborate on why the license makes a difference?

We have been told it would make it easier for people to make and distribute 
translations.

--Paul Hoffman

Actually, verbatim translations are already allowed under the existing IETF 
document license. It's other modifications that are not allowed under IETF, 
but which CC-BY would permit.

Interesting. What does "verbatim translation" mean?  Word-for-word? There is a 
reason why searching for "google translate funny" yields 63,000 results. How 
much would I be allowed to paraphrase and yet keep within the license?

Yoav