On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Bruce D'Arcus <[email protected]> wrote:
> There's been some confusion about licensing of locales files, and so
> we really need to figure this out.
>
> Rintze found this note on how Launchpad (and by extension Ubuntu)
> deals with licensing of their locales files.
>
> <https://help.launchpad.net/Translations/LicensingFAQ>
>
> They require BSD, based on the logic that:
>
> "Why was this needed?
> Translations are freely shared between projects on Launchpad.
> Copyright complicates that free exchange. That's why our terms of use
> require that, when you translate in Launchpad, you grant us the right
> to share those translations with other projects.
>
> Why the BSD license?
> The BSD license is universally compatible. This lets you share and
> combine with projects under GPL, LGPL, BSD, and many other licenses."
>
> It seems to me we have the same requirements (and this also might
> apply to styles?). Should we adopt the same license and policy?
>
> If yes, what do we need to do towards that end?
>
As a bit of background, CSL locale files used to be translated via
http://www.babelzilla.org/ along with the Zotero UI. BabelZilla doesn't
really offer any information about licensing. I don't have contact
information for most of the BabelZilla translators, so it would be difficult
and impractical to ask everybody for permission, so I hope we could use a
"we'll move to this license unless anybody objects"-approach. CSL locale
files are now hosted in their own repository
https://github.com/citation-style-language/locales .
I don't really have an opinion whether moving from CC-BY-SA to BSD would
make sense for CSL styles.
Rintze
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