Rosetta after 31 July 2008

[Jeroen Vermeulen]

Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Jun 30, 2008, at 11:52 AM, Christopher Armstrong wrote:
> 
>> Accepting BSD translations doesn't require you to change your existing
>> translations to a different license. In fact, you can GPL the
>> translations that you receive under the BSD license. That's one of the
>> major reasons to use BSD: it's lax enough that it shouldn't really
>> prevent _anyone_ from using it in whatever way they want, as long as
>> they include the notice.

> Thanks for the follow up.  I think the problem is that because my 
> current translations are all GPL and FSF assigned, I can't upload them 
> to LP and still be in compliance with LP's requirements.
> 
> So if I wanted to use LP for Mailman translations, I'd have to start 
> from scratch.

Not necessarily from scratch.  The existing GPL'ed translations are 
effectively "published" ones.  Which means they stay licensed as they 
are.  If you re-import them as published uploads, further changes in 
Launchpad can be "overlaid" as BSD-licensed additions on top of those.

You'd have to mix licenses, with the additions covered by both GPL and 
BSD, but is that a problem?


Jeroen