Ricardo Palomares Martínez wrote:
Hi,
SeaMonkey Council has a list of pending changes in SM help for SM 2.0:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=423281&hide_resolved=1
I'm wondering if I could do this?
- write documentation for those SM bugs,
- adapt it for TB, and post the translated version to our Spanish
community site TB-docs section, which uses CC-3.0-by-sa
Would it valid from the licensing POV? I guess that, as the original
author, I'm free to contribute to SM with whatever license Mozilla
wants for help (GPl/LGPL/MPL, since it goes to the repository?) and
"relicense" my own work so it can be posted in the community site.
But, as I say, I'm just guessing... :-?
[Standard disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.]
Speaking personally, whatever original documentation you write yourself
is your own; you hold the copyright, and you can license it however you
please. In particular, you're free to license it under CC-BY-SA in one
context and the Mozilla MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license on the other.
I expect to have different answers depending if we're talking of
entirely new files for SM help (which I understand not to be
derivative works at all), new sections on existing SM help files
(which I'm not so sure), or changes on existing content of SM help
files (which I understand are derivative works).
If you're modifying existing content in files that are tri-licensed then
your resulting files are (as you indicated) derivative works and should
be licensed under the same license. If you're creating new sections
within an existing help file then from the point of view of the MPL your
contributions would be Modifications and the resulting file should be
licensed under the MPL; ditto for the GPL and LGPL, so if the file was
tri-licensed originally your revised version should be tri-licensed as
well. However you're also free to take your new sections (assuming
they're not based on pre-existing material) and license them under
CC-BY-SA as well, in other contexts. (For example, if you post them to
the MDC site or whatever.)
In the end, I intend to reuse my effort to benefit as many Mozilla
users as possible, no more, no less, so if there is any alternative
approach (like start by writing the new content in the community site
and then adapting it to SM help), I'd be happy to know about it.
It doesn't really matter where you put the new content originally, all
that matters is that it be original content.
Frank
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