Re: Translations for LSR project

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

Yagor, thanks very much for your reply. :)

On 06/06/2006, at 5:51 AM, Yavor Doganov wrote:

> Clytie Siddall wrote:
> > I have a <sigh> licensing question. How does such a statement affect
> > those of us who have already assigned our translation copyright to
> > the FSF (for example, translators who contribute to The Translation
> > Project)?
>
> This is not a problem, IMHO.  The copyright assignment papers that
> we've signed to FSF refer to the translations which we are willing to
> assign copyright to the FSF.  For me, this is every single translation
> I make,

For me, too.

> but it totally depends on you.  Also note that the Disclaimer
> of the TP is *not* actually a copyright assignment, e.g. the FSF does
> not act as assignee.  For that you need to write to assign gnu org 
>
> I'm considering this is a good idea, because imagine the following
> scenario, which in fact actually happens sometimes:
>
> The copyright holders of Foobar decide to relicense the program from
> GPL to BSD-like license.  Someone takes the BSD code and makes a
> derived proprietary version.  In order to include my translation,
> they'll have to ask approval from the FSF, which won't be given (in
> fact it won't be given to relisence it to BSD at first instance).  So,
> it better protects our work and ensures that it will never enhance
> non-free software.  Unfortunately, people sometimes change their mind
> about freedom.

Thankyou very much for clarifying that for me. I really don't  
understand the legal aspects, and just want my translations to be  
free. I'm very glad I signed the FSF disclaimer. :)

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
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