Re: BSD licence

[danilo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Danilo Šegan)]

Hi Benno, Milo,

On Tuesday at 23:18, Benno Schulenberg wrote:

> Milo Casagrande wrote:
>> when you upload a translation from upstream and publish it
>> as "coming from upstream", it should maintains its license;
>> if you publish it as a "user upload" then, as Danilo said, you're
>> messing up a little bit the translations and in that case you're
>> publishing under BSD. 

That's right: if you are uploading others' upstream translations,
check the 'published' box on the upload page.

> If the uploader is the upstream translator, it should be his or her 
> prerogative to do a "user upload".  As the strings are his or hers, 
> she or he can decide to publish them under different licences, no?

Indeed.

> However, I do hope that Launchpad is clever enough to not see 
> uploaded strings that are identical to packaged strings as 
> contributions, but instead retains for these identical strings the 
> licence of packaged ones.

This is true as well: if exactly the same strings appear, we don't
change their origin from "packaged" to "Launchpad".

Cheers,
Danilo