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The Public License of Translation recognizes in the use of the own language a fundamental right of individuals and it contemplates Internet like a space of free communication of ideas. This license authorizes the translation, modification and adaptation for the publication in Internet of the work that it protects, provided that all translated or derived versions are accompanied by the same license that the original version. Without prejudice to the author's tutelage of the work, this license equalizes the author's rights with the rights of the beneficiaries of this license on the respective versions of the work.
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1. The Public License of Translation (PLT) has as end to promote the free circulation and the free access in Internet of the translatable works that it protects.
2. In accordance with its title, this license protects translatable works, that is to say works that are distinguished for the necessity of being translated to other languages before being enjoyed universal form. Beyond their title, this license embraces all the shades of the transformation of a translatable work and it authorizes the translation, modification and adaptation of the work for its publication in Internet.
3. The holder of the original rights protected by this license is designated as "the author". The holder of rights granted by this license is designated as "the beneficiary", in second person ("you"). "Internet" refers to the group of interconnected networks and for extension, any software, media and equipment that it allows to consult the work published in Internet.
4. In what continues, and without otherwise stated, this license use the word "works" to designate the "original version" and the "transformed version" indistinctly, that is to say, translated, modified or adapted for its publication in Internet. For "original version", this license understands any version for which the author's name and the beneficiary's name is the same, and for "translated or transformed version", any version for which the author's names and the beneficiary's name are different.
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b) The beneficiary's tutelage on the derivative version doesn't harm the author's tutelage on the work.
c) The author's copyright and the beneficiary's copyright on their respective versions is the same.
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b) The beneficiary's name, when it does not coincide with that of the author.
c) The reference to the entire text and version of this license.
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2. You may translate and publish the work in Internet starting from any original or derived version of the work, inclusive the author's original version, provided the same license accompanies the published version.
3. You may translate or revise the work to the same one or another language and include your name after the author's name. To effects of this license, all derivative version of the work will be considered published starting from the original version. The author's name cannot change even if versions are different.
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