Thanks for explanation, On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Alex Thurgood <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 15/11/2013 02:53, Baurzhan Muftakhidinov a écrit : > > Hi, > > >> >> I am the main translator of LibreOffice to Kazakh language. >> >> I also want to import my work (Kazakh translation) to Apache OO (in the >> future). >> >> Can I just take and upload it there? What about license, >> I mean I have already contributed my work to LO, and it is >> under LGPLv3 and MPL now. Is it compatible with Apache OO? > > > > Translators' copyright is a derivative or adaptation right, i.e. although it > benefits from copyright under most legal systems, it still depends on the > original right, and therefore licence of the original work. What this means > is that a translator can not necessarily relicence his/her work in a way > that deviates from the licence of the original work. > > Additionally, there is the fact that you are only the "main" translator, > which implies that others have participated in the work.
I said 'main' because I convinced several people to help me, but their share is around 280 messages in total. I can surely ask for their permissions. > Where a work (here the translation) can be deemed to be collective, i.e. the > individual elements can not be dissociated from the whole, then the rights > holder can effect the licence change on behalf of the contributors. However, > the LO project doesn't have a single rights holder, unlike the Apache > Foundation, which is why each contributor is asked to release their > contribution under an individual licence statement. > > What this means for the translation is that each contributor would have to > agree to the change in licence if you wanted to submit the whole work to the > Apache Foundation. The alternative is to relicence only those parts of the > translation for which you were the author, although perhaps a Kazakh > translation already partly existed within OOo and this got carried over in > the grant to the Apache Foundation, in which case you could merge your own > translations into it ? You would have to ask on the AOO lists to find out. > > Alex Thanks, I will ask in the AOO lists. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/l10n/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
