legal stuff in firefox 3.1

[Novica Nakov]

I was just translating aboutRights.dtd and there is some legal language
there.

Maybe there should be another string in the file saying that the
translation of the legal text is for informational purposes and the
valid/accurate text is the English one?

I think that's the usual disclamer that is used for GPL translations.

Just a thought.

Novica

[Axel Hecht]

Novica Nakov wrote:
> I was just translating aboutRights.dtd and there is some legal language
> there.
>
> Maybe there should be another string in the file saying that the
> translation of the legal text is for informational purposes and the
> valid/accurate text is the English one?

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/locales/en-US/chrome/browser/aboutRights.dtd?mark=65-66#65
has such a phrase, even if it's only there in the web services part.

Axel

[Novica Nakov]

> http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/locales/en-US/chrome/browser/aboutRights.dtd?mark=65-66#65
> has such a phrase, even if it's only there in the web services part.

Yes I saw that. It looks to me that the phrase is about the confict
between the legal translation of the text and the original version.

I assume that no one here is actually doing a legal translation of the
text (maybe some l10n have legal councels?). So my remark is that the
translation provided is not really a legal one, and is just for
informative purposes.

Novica

[Axel Hecht]

The whole idea of about:rights is that we're moving away from "legal" as
much as possible. The "legal" is the MPL (and possibly other licenses),
and about:rights is merely a text explaining the rough idea.

The web services parts is a bit more legal, and thus has the reference
in there.

But in the end, the point is that we try to not put legal text into the
eyes of the user, and instead explain the rough ideas of the licenses
covering Firefox.

Axel