Re: Translation / Documentation licensing

Am Freitag, 12. März 2010 17:45:00 schrieb Burkhard Lück:
> Hi,
> 
> I have two questions regarding licensing.
> 
> 1) License of translations of docs
> The Licensing_Policy says in section 6:
> "...Translations of text from other files must be licenced under one of the
> terms in sections 4 or 5."
> Sections 4 and 5 name LGPL/BSD/MIT/X11/GPL but no FDL which is the license
>  to be used for documentation.
> 
> FDL says in 2.9 TRANSLATION:
> "Translation is considered a kind of modification...", so the translation
>  of a kde documentation afaik has to be FDL as well.
> 
> This seems to be contradicting to the text in Licensing_Policy section 6.
> 
> 2) Using Documentation licensed under FDL with a Invariant Section.
> 
> Recently I got in contact with the 'Doku-Wichtl' from opensuse
> (http://en.opensuse.org/Documentation_Team) about a collaboration for
> writing/exchanging KDE documentation.
> 
> The opensuse docu team has eg written a KDE Quick Start and a KDE User
>  Guide and some more docs for KDE 4; see
> http://www.novell.com/documentation/opensuse112/
> 
> Legal section of these docs says:
> "Copyright © 2006-2009 Novell, Inc.
> Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under
> the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later
> version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the Invariant
>  Section being this copyright notice and license. ..."
> 
> Afaik the copyright notice of the original documentation has to be included
>  in the modified documentation anyway and the modified doc must be FDL, so
>  this Invariant Section seems to be superfluous, but IANAL...
> 
> Or is there something in this Invariant Section I have overlooked?
> 
> Licensing_Policy has in section 8:
> "Documentation must be licensed under one of the following terms:
> FDL versions 1.2 as listed in kdelibs/COPYING.DOC or later versions with no
> Invariant Sections..."
> 
> Does that mean a modified version of the opensuse docs with the mentioned
> Invariant Section can't be used in KDE?
> 
Ping?
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Burkhard Lück