-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Jul 3, 2008, at 4:37 AM, Jeroen Vermeulen wrote:
> Barry Warsaw wrote: >> On Jun 30, 2008, at 11:52 AM, Christopher Armstrong wrote: >>> Accepting BSD translations doesn't require you to change your >>> existing >>> translations to a different license. In fact, you can GPL the >>> translations that you receive under the BSD license. That's one of >>> the >>> major reasons to use BSD: it's lax enough that it shouldn't really >>> prevent _anyone_ from using it in whatever way they want, as long as >>> they include the notice. > >> Thanks for the follow up. I think the problem is that because my >> current translations are all GPL and FSF assigned, I can't upload >> them to LP and still be in compliance with LP's requirements. >> So if I wanted to use LP for Mailman translations, I'd have to >> start from scratch. > > Not necessarily from scratch. The existing GPL'ed translations are > effectively "published" ones. Which means they stay licensed as > they are. If you re-import them as published uploads, further > changes in Launchpad can be "overlaid" as BSD-licensed additions on > top of those. > > You'd have to mix licenses, with the additions covered by both GPL > and BSD, but is that a problem? I don't know. Has anybody contacted the FSF about this? If not, I have contacts there and could see what their opinion is of the current arrangement. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkhswoIACgkQ2YZpQepbvXE0+wCguRbGpZohy24zBTky/DZC7dEz +NsAn32J1jDEupOoMUdfRwoIQbIaGjRH =nQFn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- launchpad-users mailing list launchpad-users@lists.canonical.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/launchpad-users
