Em Qui, 2008-07-03 às 21:31 -0400, Og Maciel escreveu: > On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Leonardo F. Fontenelle > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What a minute... If I localize a GPL-ed software, and distribute my > > translation with the GPL, an Ubuntu translation team will be unable to > > import it into Rosetta. Even worse, today there should be a lot of > > upstream translation already in Rosetta. They can't just change the > > licensing of previously GPL-ed contributions! > > Hold your horses fellas. Nothing of this sort has happened yet. I've > been following this discussion at both ends of the "arena" long > enough, and from what I understand nothing that gets imported (not to > confuse with uploaded manually) by Ubuntu gets the new BSD licensing > scheme. In other words, a GNOME package that gets imported will > maintain its original license. It is only with translations done via > Rosetta OR manual uploads that the BSD license kicks in (assuming you > are a member of the Ubuntu translation team AND have chosen the BSD > license). Because this new process is new, I believe that it is safe > to say that every GNOME package in the Ubuntu repositories still have > their original license.
That's better :) When a imported, GPL-ed translation needs one or two adjustments in Rosetta (e.g. because of an Ubuntu patch, or upstream has a translation bug), how will the resulting Ubuntu file be licensed? -- Leonardo Fontenelle http://leonardof.org _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
