Re: Translation licences

[Andreas Røsdal <andrearo pvv ntnu no>]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Josef Spillner wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, 11. April 2007 18:31 schrieben Sie:
> > gnome-games is licensed with the GPL version 2, and the translations are
> > licensed with the same license. The GPL and LGPL licenses are compatible,
> > so you can use either license if you want to:
> >
> > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html
>
> I'm not sure about this. If a translator explicitly wishes his works to be
> under GPL, then it shouldn't be possible to re-use the translations in LGPL
> packages, which would allow the translation to be used in proprietary
> software which build upon ggz-client-libs or any other LGPL'd library for
> that matter.
>
> By importing ggz-client-libs into GNOME SVN, the LGPL was "upgraded" to GPL,
> but it cannot be downgraded again for any modifications.

Do you have any references for this? I would prefer to be pragmatic, and 
use stuff from either license, and share stuff both ways. According to the 
above link, the LGPL is GPL compatible: "It is compatible with the GNU GPL."

 - Andreas