Alex Günsche wrote:
In short terms: the GPL protects the literal code, but a translation contains no literal parts of the original -- only its ideas and concepts. It is questionable in how far a translation is a derivative work, and you would have decide it for each piece of work. This is prone to cause legal confusion. The CC licenses however also protect (to a certain extent) the idea behind a work, therefore the translations licensing issue is easier to solve with a CC license. (IMHO, IANAL.)
Well if you think of the intention, I think licensing the translations the same as the Codex and WordPress itself would fit very much within what the ultimate goal is for the Codex, which is to have a large body of work that is available under the same terms as WordPress itself and could, if needed, be included directly with the WordPress distribution.
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