Re: Licenses of .po files, and translations

[Gudmund Areskoug <gudmundpublic gmail com>]

Axel Hecht skrev:
> FWIW, in the Mozilla project, we consider translations to be derivative work.
> 
> Which is what we consider, I wouldn't know that any lawyer looked at it for us.

It is/may be derivative work, but the copyright to a translation belongs
 to the translator by default.

Since it is or may be derivative, the translator mostly can't do
whatever she likes with the translation, but nobody else can do anything
with the translation unless the translator says so.

BR,
Gudmund

> Axel
> 
> 2008/9/21 Anna Jonna Armannsdottir <annajonna gmail com>:
>> On fös, 2008-09-12 at 22:26 +0530, Gora Mohanty wrote:
>>>   Thus, as I see it, for an application licensed under
>>> the GPL, the .pot files, and the .po files are also
>>> GPL-licensed.
>> Your argument seems to be that the source of those files
>> is the GPL ed source. This only holds for th pot file and
>> the untranslated .po file.
>> The work of the translators are completely independent of
>> the source.
>> Also copyright owners may change their minds and change
>> license and or terms. Thus translators that were translating
>> free software may find that their work is being used in
>> non-free software as well.
>> Because of this, I would like to explicitly specify GPL as
>> the license of the .po files I translate.
>> If other translators would like to translate the same software
>> under a different license, they are free to do that, because
>> the .pot file and the .po files are just a template to be
>> filled out with translations of sentences into a
>> particular language. Copyright would only hold for the work
>> as a whole, and as long as there is a difference in the
>> in the translation as a whole, they would have to be considered
>> as two separate works, with the similarity beign the template
>> dot po file.
>>
>> This is my personal view on this.
>>
>> --
>> Anna Jonna Ármannsdóttir coordinator
>> The Icelandic GNOME Localisation team
>> http://l10n.gnome.org/teams/is was 11% translated
>>
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