Re: Translating pods in italian: copyright issues

On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 12:30:28PM +0200, Stefano Rodighiero wrote:

> Of course we're not going to distribute our translations with the Perl 
> distribution.
> But we're going to keep them freely downloadable from internet. Is there a 
> way to
> manage copyright issues at a single blow, or we have to contact every single
> copyright holder?

Do you have a complete list of the documents that state some sort of
interesting copyright?
Presumably there are both the docs in pod and the pod in various assimilated
modules.

I find all the delta files have text that is either

perl5004delta.pod:
  The F<Copying> file for copyright information
perl5005delta.pod (and later deltas):
   The F<Artistic> and F<Copying> files for copyright information.

As to the other files in pod/ with explicit copyrights:


perlboot.pod:
Copyright (c) 1999, 2000 by Randal L. Schwartz and Stonehenge
Consulting Services, Inc.  Permission is hereby granted to distribute
this document intact with the Perl distribution, and in accordance
with the licenses of the Perl distribution; derived documents must
include this copyright notice intact.

perldebtut.pod:
Richard Foley <[email protected]> Copyright (c) 2000

perlembed.pod (perlmodinstall.pod has the same terms)

Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 Doug MacEachern and Jon Orwant.  All
Rights Reserved.

Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
documentation provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
preserved on all copies.

Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
documentation under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided also
that they are marked clearly as modified versions, that the authors'
names and title are unchanged (though subtitles and additional
authors' names may be added), and that the entire resulting derived
work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical
to this one.

Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this
documentation into another language, under the above conditions for
modified versions.

All the perlfaq:
Copyright (c) 1997-2002 Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington.
All rights reserved.

=head2 Bundled Distributions

This documentation is free; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.

perlfilter.pod (similarly perlothrtut.pod, perlthrtut.pod):
This article originally appeared in The Perl Journal #11, and is
copyright 1998 The Perl Journal. It appears courtesy of Jon Orwant and
The Perl Journal.  This document may be distributed under the same terms
as Perl itself.

perlopentut.pod, perltooc.pod, perltoot.pod:
Copyright 1998 Tom Christiansen.  

This documentation is free; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.

perlreftut.pod:
Copyright 1998 The Perl Journal.

When included as part of the Standard Version of Perl, or as part of
its complete documentation whether printed or otherwise, this work may
be distributed only under the terms of Perl's Artistic License.  Any
distribution of this file or derivatives thereof outside of that
package require that special arrangements be made with copyright
holder.

perlrequick.pod, perlretut.pod:
Copyright (c) 2000 Mark Kvale
All rights reserved.

This document may be distributed under the same terms as Perl itself.

perluniintro.pod:
Copyright 2001-2002 Jarkko Hietaniemi <[email protected]>

This document may be distributed under the same terms as Perl itself.



Spot the odd one out? It's perldebtut.pod. All the others explicitly allow
you to distribute under the same terms as perl itself (providing that you
distribute the entire documentation). And perl's terms are GPL or Artistic.
And the Artistic licence says:

3. You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any way, provided
that you insert a prominent notice in each changed file stating how and
when you changed that file, and provided that you do at least ONE of the
following:

    a) place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise make them
    Freely Available, such as by posting said modifications to Usenet or
    an equivalent medium, or placing the modifications on a major archive
    site such as uunet.uu.net, or by allowing the Copyright Holder to include
    your modifications in the Standard Version of the Package.

    b) use the modified Package only within your corporation or organization.

    c) rename any non-standard executables so the names do not conflict
    with standard executables, which must also be provided, and provide
    a separate manual page for each non-standard executable that clearly
    documents how it differs from the Standard Version.

    d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.



and you are going to do 3a - modify the package in any way (by removing
all the source code, translating all the documentation, and prominently
inserting something in each file explaining that this is a modified copy)
and "otherwise make them freely available." (the Internet bit, but it has
to be free)

So all you need to do is ask Richard Foley if he could amend the terms of
his documentation to be "the same terms as perl itself" and then I believe
that the authors of all the documents have actually already granted
permission.

I Cc'd him.

Nicholas Clark
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