Paper "Security record of open source and free software"

[Eike Rathke]

Hi Matthias,

On Friday, 2017-08-18 10:51:21 +0000, Matthias Kirschner wrote:

>  https://www.esmt.org/sites/default/files/dsi_ipr5_engl-dt.pdf (English
>  and German)
> 
> Looking forward to your comments.

It was pointed out to me by a very attentive reader ;) that the English
version has some odd use of "free of licensing". The German sentence

"
Freie
Software zeichnet sich dadurch aus, dass Ihre
Verwendung, Analyse, Verbreitung und Verbesserung
unabhängig von den konkreten Lizenzmodellen
grundsätzlich genehmigungsfrei ist.
"

was translated to

"
Free software is characterized by the fact
that its use, analysis, distribution, and improvement is,
in principle, free of licensing, regardless of the specific
licensing models.
"

Theproblem is "genehmigungsfrei", which can be translated as "free of
licensing", but in this context shouldn't, as almost every Free Software
*does* come with some license.

I think a much better approach would be to use "free of approbation".

  Eike

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