On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 08:30 +0100, Peter TB Brett wrote: > On Sunday 28 September 2008 02:20:48 Ales Hvezda wrote: > > > However, how does this help our existing translations which are > > GPLed? Certainly we are not expected to upload our GPL licenced > > strings and then have them, through some sort of magic, get licensed > > as BSD? Maybe I'm missing something obvious here. > > Yes, I kinda feel like we've been shafted by Launchpad here.
After they explained it, I don't think we are. They have just had to take some consideration of what license to use, which is naturally more painful than just sweeping the issue under the carpet. All "upstrem upload" translations will keep the license associated with the project's launchpad entry. In our case, GPL. The only thing which is slightly shafting is that we will almost certainly loose track of which strings are under which license. (Although they say they keep this information, and could extract it if we needed it). The launchpad FAQ cautions other projects taking translations wholesale from other projects' strings without carefully checking license compatibility. > I wonder if I can find something similar which we could run on gpleda.org... > I > know OpenTTD have a web translator system of some kind. Launchpad is good in many respects, and I suggest in the first instance, if there is something which might make us leave.. we should take it up with their admins first before doing so. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
