Rosetta after 31 July 2008

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Jul 3, 2008, at 4:37 AM, Jeroen Vermeulen wrote:

> 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?

I don't know.  Has anybody contacted the FSF about this?  If not, I  
have contacts there and could see what their opinion is of the current  
arrangement.

- -Barry

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