This thread demonstrates precisely why I loathe licensing. But I digress,
please continue.
On Dec 1, 2011 9:08 AM, "Shaun McCance" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 09:28 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 09:44 -0500, Tiffany Antopolski wrote:
> > > The manual is being rewritten using Mallard.  Chris Beiser, a
> > > google-code-in student worked on this.  He is including some material
> > > from the docbook version, which is why he requested a licence change.
> > > The new mallard docs will be available in 3.4.
> >
> > Have the licenses of the translations been checked, and if translators
> > explicitly put them under GFDL have translators been contacted to also
> > double-license the translations, or put them "under the same license"?
> >
> > Asking because I had the same problem (reusing some material from the
> > docbook verson) with the Evolution manual rewrite.
>
> Wow, good point. I had never thought of that issue. We don't really
> track the license of any of our translations, docs or UI, except by
> just saying "It's under the same license as the parent module." And
> that can be complicated by modules with complicated licenses. Have
> any translators ever read the COPYING file in yelp-xsl?
>
> I'd say that, if the original translator of the DocBook manual isn't
> around and working on the Mallard help, then translation teams should
> probably start from scratch on their translations.
>
> But don't teams use translation memories that they share across team
> members and across projects? Doesn't that also introduce a potential
> for reusing copyrighted translations in places where you don't have
> permission to do so?
>
> --
> Shaun
>
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