From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 00/17] Begin gettextizing Git Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:02:35 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1283203703-26923-1-git-send-email-avarab@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Peter Krefting , Git Mailing List To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C6var_Arnfj=F6r=F0?= Bjarmason X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 31 14:02:50 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OqPY9-0001xP-Bn for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:02:49 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753404Ab0HaMCo convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:02:44 -0400 Received: from mx2.imag.fr ([129.88.30.17]:44322 "EHLO rominette.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752800Ab0HaMCn (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:02:43 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by rominette.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o7VBx47R020197 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:59:04 +0200 Received: from bauges.imag.fr ([129.88.43.5]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OqPXv-0002NM-FQ; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:02:35 +0200 In-Reply-To: (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22=C6var_Arnfj=F6r=F0?= Bjarmason"'s message of "Tue\, 31 Aug 2010 11\:42\:38 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (rominette.imag.fr [129.88.30.17]); Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:59:05 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: o7VBx47R020197 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1283860745.71292@Jkk6hjzSCTko6qQBjj4fbw Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: =C6var Arnfj=F6r=F0 Bjarmason writes: > I've used Launchpad somewhat for translating and it's friendly to > contributors & has an active community, but it seems to require that > we BSD-license our translations[1], which would be a showstopper sinc= e > we'd have to contact everyone who's been submitting GPL-2-only string= s > to Git for the last 5 years. I don't think so: ,----[ https://help.launchpad.net/Translations/LicensingFAQ ] | I have no problem with BSD myself, but I also uploaded translations | from upstream. What do I do? |=20 | As long as the uploads were marked as translations that were publishe= d | elsewhere, they fall under a separate copyright regime: those imports | will retain their original copyright license. The BSD licence only | applies to translations that are (as far as the system knows) origina= l | to Launchpad. `---- So, my understanding is: Git's code, and strings, would remain what they are, but things contributed _through launchpad_ would be BSD. --=20 Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/