Re: Invariant sections? GFPL

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

On 04/09/2005, at 11:09 PM, Danilo Åegan wrote:

> That's "legalese".  They are capitalised because they are defined in
> GFDL, and it requires each document copyright notice to indicate if it
> has any invariant sections (some document might have there "with
> Invariant Sections 'Our Mothers' and 'Our Fathers'" if they have such
> two invariant sections).
>
> You should translate them the same way you did in your GFDL
> translation, though you'll probably need help either from a lawyer or
> law student to translate that one :)

Thanks, Danilo. I'm always uncomfortable about translating any legal  
statements, because I'm not a professional translator with liability  
insurance. If someone sues and uses my translation as evidence, I'm  
in real trouble. What is Gnome's position on non-professional (and  
thus not protected by insurance) translators translating legal  
statements?

(For example, if I translate a copyright statement for an  
application, I state clearly that my translation is to be used only  
as a general guide to the meaning of the legal statement, and most  
emphatically _not_ as legal evidence; that anyone wanting to use this  
information in court must have it professionally translated. I'm  
assuming most people don't want to sue anyone, but unfortunately,  
nowadays we have to waste a lot of time preparing for the noisy  
minority who do.)

:(

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