Re: Launchpad licensing issues

[Anna Jonna Armannsdottir <annaj hi is>]

On fim, 2008-07-03 at 19:52 +0200, Sven Herzberg wrote:
> > As a translator I always license my translations under the 
> > same license as the software itself. Anything else, is 
> > nonsense in my opinion. 
> 
> AFAIK the BSD-License was chosen exactly to permit this. You can
> easily
> relicense BSD-licensed code (translations as well) to (L)GPL. They
> chose
> the BSD-License to be able to deal with upstreaming of translations
> (read: pushing launchpad translations into the upstream projects).

I only have translated GPL-ed software, so of course the license 
of my translations is GPL. The GPL license has ample permissions 
to allow anyone to distribute and change my translations, pushing 
it into the upstream projects, or using it in other GPL projects. 

I can not yet see any valid reason for having my efforts for Free 
Software invalidated, so I respectfully disagree with this. 

-- 
Anna Jonna Ármannsdóttir coordinator 
The Icelandic GNOME Localisation team 
http://l10n.gnome.org/teams/is was 11% translated