A legal question

[Robert Dewar]

On 5/4/2011 2:47 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Wed, 4 May 2011, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> Our web pages say
>>
>> "Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved."
>>
>> but does "Verbatim" allow people to translate and redistribute the pages?
>
> In spirit it should, legally I am not sure and have asked RMS.
>
> Good catch!
>
> Gerald

I am pretty sure verbatim copying does not include translation, which
is more usually thought of as a derived work. After all 100% accurate
translation is plain impossible, so the result is never a verbatim copy
in any sense.