Hi Bruno,
On Tuesday at 18:53, Bruno Patri wrote:
> In my opinion, it's just the opposite, BSD is worse than the FSF disclaimer.
>
> http://translationproject.org/disclaim.txt
> "I disclaim all
> copyright interest in my works, which consist of translation of
> portions of free software programs from one human language to another
> human language,
This ("I disclaim...") means that you are putting your translations in
public domain.
>that I have provided to the Foundation or that I will
> provide in the future.
> The programs to which this applies include all
> programs for which the Foundation is the copyright holder, and all
> other freely redistributable software programs."
This is a limitation of the above disclaimer to only the FSF stuff you
contribute your translations to. It means that you are not putting
translations you do for other projects into public domain, just the
ones FSF is in charge of, 'and all other freely redistributable
software programs'. Your disclaimed translations can still be used in
proprietary software.
> As far as I can understand it, the last sentence gives me the guarantee that
> my translations can not be used in proprietary software. There's nothing about
> "public domain" in this disclaimer.
'Copyright disclaimer' means that you claim to have no interest in
copyrights over your work (dis-claim == negation of "claim"). That's
exactly what putting into public domain is.
Cheers,
Danilo
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