Re: [fsl-discuss] Re: [hangout] *ASTOUNDING* Statement by Peruvian Congressman on Free Software in the Government

[Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr>]

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 07:22:49AM -0400, David Sugar wrote:
> 

> > Do you know if his letter was written originally in Spanish?
> 
> Yes it was in Spanish.  I do not know who did the translation.

I do:  Graham Seaman.

see http://pauillac.inria.fr/~lang/libre/politique/perou/resmseng.html/


  The law
> they are proposing is also written in Spanish and there was not an English
> translation available.  I had the law read to me in English, and it does
> define and enumerate the characteristics of "Free Software".  The
> definition they choose seemed in principle to agree with the FSF
> definition (and that of others), although the exact wording was not the
> same.  This of course could be the result of translation to Spanish and
> then back if they used the FSF definition as a starting point, or just may
> have been written by somebody that understood the principles involved.
> 
> > If so, where can we find the original?
> 
> http://www.gnu.org.pe/main.html.  On the upper left are all the links ;
> related to this.
> 
> > 
> > 
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