GNU GPL for doc -- Why?

[Werner Koch]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, IIDA Yosiaki wrote:

>   I do see many books which include copy of GNU GPL.  But

No, I don't mean that.  IIRC, there are DEbian books, GNOME and GTK
books entirely under the GPL.  Karl Fogel's CVS book has many
chapters which fall under the GPL.

>   As far as I understand, translating into another natural
> language is out of range covered by GNU GPL.

As long as you adhere to the GPL, you can do what you want with it. 
This includes translations of course.  Compare this to a GPLed program
written in C which you want to translate to Scheme - no problem.


   Werner