I'm just looking at the Open Source Initiative approved licenses. I see an interesting comment that, while translations into other languages are available for some of the licenses, the English versions are the only ones that are legally binding. That has me thinking: assuming a common language is needed for worldwide legal contracts such as software licenses, will English become the de facto language for such contracts? Is a common language even necessary?
Posted by Doug Sauder at February 6, 2003 09:23 AM