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What for? What's the relevance of the FSF here?

Well, if you really want an anecdote with the FSF. I happen to have one :D

The court used the French GPL translation from the FSF. The very translations saying that they are not official translations and cannot be used in court. Well, the FSF doesn't get to decide what's admissible in court.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/translations.en.html

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That's not that unusual. If you have a contract written in something other than English and it ended up in a US court, the court would probably look at this translation and essentially be like, well, even though it says that it was translated by a non-party to this case and there's no reason to believe it's intentionally mistranslated, so good enough. Especially if the parties to the dispute didn't have any objections.

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