>> I thought to update the Dutch translation in Launchpad this morning and >> was asked to agree with a transition of my Dutch translations to a BSD >> license, or to disagree, and have my translations removed from >> Launchpad. >> >> As I understand gEDA currently uses the GPL v2 license. >> >> Could you give me advice how to proceed with this license issue on >> Launchpad, as I would like to have (my) translations to be in sync with >> gEDA source code (and not to be distributed in a separate tarball). > > IANAL, but as far as I remember BSD code is GPL-compatible: it can be included > and distributed in GPL software without any problems. > > Anyone else able to weigh in on this?
Here's the list of GPL license compatabilities: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses The "modified BSD" license is OK, but the "original BSD" is not. Ummmm, I looked at the launchpad translations web pages to see what was going on. Can you please tell me how to get to the point where I am asked to use a BSD license? Stuart _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
