On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 08:09:18PM -0300, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: > On 07/04/2007 04:46 PM, Jens Seidel wrote: > > Who cares about the Copyright? > > A lot of people that contributes care about their copyright.
Yes, I would also like to know how many descriptions I translated but not for legal issues. Who owns the copyright if 20 other persons touched the translation and completely rewrote the original description? As far as I know I would not a Copyright holder in this case. > > Isn't the license the important info? > > Both. > > > In this case a hint that translations will be considered as GPL > > licensed would help, right? > > No. As already said, maintainers could license their work > under BSD-2-clause. We should encourage the general understanding > that translations are a derived work so the translator also is > contributing under the same license of the copyright owner. (But > still, there is a translation copyright). A derived work is not always restricted to the same license, right? This is true for GPL and LGPL but couldn't even a (DFSG free) license force that derived work is distributed under a different license (project X licensed under the "X software license" could force a rename of the project for derived work so that using the X software license would be considered as a bad idea)? At least I think that it is completely OK to use license B for derived work of a project using license A. So we need to request the license from the translator or explicitely specify it!? > > Anonymous translations are really fine for me as long as I can improve > > it and avoid that such persons overwrite important stuff ... > > Not for everybody. And anonymous translations can be > dangerous because we don't know the origin, having a web > interface easy to contribute but that keeps track of *who* > is suggesting a change, seems to be the consensus since > DebConf6. I sometime hesitate to report a trivial bug if I need to register first. It is sometimes a very complicated step (such as for Novell services, they even request your (postal) address, and all services are closed without an account). Jens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
