<html><body><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>Da: </b>"Joseph Donahue" <joseph@odonahue.com><br><b>A: </b>"license-review@lists.opensource.org" <license-review@lists.opensource.org><br><b>Inviato: </b>Giovedì, 9 marzo 2023 2:20:16<br><b>Oggetto: </b>Re: [License-review] For Approval: MulanOWL BY v1; MulanOWL BY-SA v1; MulanOWL BY-PL v1; MulanOWL BY-PL-SA v1<br></blockquote></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><p>How does that work exactly? A Chinese fluent licensee can read
and understand it's terms and rely on them completely, but an
English fluent licensee cannot? The fact this clause is deemed to
be needed is concerning to me. I am not a lawyer, but I would
think they should both be legally enforceable and I am not sure
how that works. Seems the OSI would need some strong
non-computerized interpreters to ensure both versions are
consistent. Do they have resources for that?</p></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Answer: no and it is not our task.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Quite on the contrary, the presence of the clause renders it unnecessary, since in case of discrepancy one of them prevails. Actually it was I who pointed out its need. It is always a big mess when you have two equivalent versions, I have direct experience since it's a requirement for a client of mine (all contracts and deeds in general must be bilingual).<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Just a thought experiment. Think if version A requires you to paint the wall black. Version B to make it red. Can both of them apply at the same time? <br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Now think if X paints it black and Y paints it red. W mixes them, what would the wall be? Stripes? A de-saturated and darker red? Half and half in vertical? Horizontal? Would a mesh of colors comply with either versions of the license?<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>This in my recollection is why Creative Commons abandoned the nationalized versions. <br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Cheers<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>K<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><p><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/10/2023 1:23 AM, 卢遥 via
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