Re: Fedora seems to violate the copyright of KDE

On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 03:50:32PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> 
> fedora-websites-3-0 contains the following string:
> 
> Dragon Player is a multimedia player where the focus is on simplicity,
> instead of features. Its simple interface is designed not to get in your way
> and instead empower you to simply play multimedia files.
> 
> The above string can be found easily within Weblate by replacing
> 'state:<translated' (in the menu bar) with 'Dragon Player is' and typing
> ENTER.
> 
> The above string is used on the following page:
> https://fedoraproject.org/spins/lxqt/
> and on every translation of that page,for example:
> https://fedoraproject.org/nl/spins/lxqt/
> 
> However, it seems that the two sentences have been copied from:
> https://apps.kde.org/dragonplayer/
> This page is translated in many languages, you may have to use the language
> selection menu at the top of the page to get the English version.
> 
> The aforementioned page of KDE has the following paragraph:
> 
> Dragon Player is a multimedia player where the focus is on simplicity,
> instead of features. Dragon Player does one thing, and only one thing, which
> is playing multimedia files. Its simple interface is designed not to get in
> your way and instead empower you to simply play multimedia files.
> 
> Therefore, it appears that two of these three sentences have been copied. In
> my judgement, this is a clear violation of copyright.

This is the project's own description of their application, which is
also present in their appdata file:

  https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/dragon/-/blob/master/misc/org.kde.dragonplayer.appdata.xml

the contents of that appdata file are made available under the CC0
license, which acts as a public doman dedication. IOW there's no
copyright problem that I can see here.

With regards,
Daniel
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