Hi Anna, Am Donnerstag, den 03.07.2008, 17:39 +0000 schrieb Anna Jonna Armannsdottir: > Today, when I logged into Launchpad, the interface > gave me an ultimatum, either convert all licenses of > my translations to BSD license, or else all my translations > will be removed from Launchpad. > > I think this will upset the way the icelandic translation team > is working. When building up a team, this is the way to > take it down. > > As a translator I always license my translations under the > same license as the software itself. Anything else, is > nonsense in my opinion.
AFAIK the BSD-License was chosen exactly to permit this. You can easily relicense BSD-licensed code (translations as well) to (L)GPL. They chose the BSD-License to be able to deal with upstreaming of translations (read: pushing launchpad translations into the upstream projects). Regards, Sven _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
