Re: Translation in public license with source code in GPL-2.0-or-after

Piotr Drąg <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.internationalization
Message-ID <CAE4jGzqH_7ik-BQAc9HAv=2V-H1ECa5Gy+yXy7R_SNLaut7nYA@mail.gmail.com>
czw., 9 sty 2020, 10:48 użytkownik Piotr Drąg <[email protected]> napisał:

> czw., 9 sty 2020, 10:26 użytkownik Jean-Baptiste Holcroft <
> [email protected]> napisał:
>
>> Dear translators,
>>
>> ABRT dev want to have a different license for translation than the one
>> used for the software.
>>
>> Their software is GLP 2.0 or after.
>> They would like to have some kind of "Public Domain" License for
>> translation.
>>
>> I never had this situation before and don't know if this is acceptable
>> or not.
>>
>> According to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing
>> It means: "Being in the public domain is not a license; rather, it means
>> the material is not copyrighted and no license is needed."
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>
>
> It’s absolutely unacceptable. I’m quite baffled, to be honest. What is
> their reasoning for this?
>

Another thing: existing translations are already copyrighted. They’d have
to chase hundreds of people who contributed over the years and ask each
individually if they’re willing to give up their copyright, or start fresh
with new translations. Neither is feasible in my opinion.

IANAL, of course.

>

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