Re: BSD licence

["Jennifer Ockwell" <jenfraggleubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm amazed that people are so bothered by copyright.  Am I alone in not caring about ownership of translations?  I translate to help out, I couldn't care less about copyright on my translations.  At the end of the day I am translating something someone else has written.  I imagined copyright is valid on original works, translating isn't creating something original.

Jen

2008/7/3 Bruno Patri <bruno.patri@xxxxxxxxx>:

On Thursday 03 July 2008 12:51:33 you wrote:
> 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.

This means that the work ""that i have provided"" to FSF is Not copyrighted
(FSF documentation is very clear about this, public domain means not
copyrighted) It doesn't mean that this work is going to be published 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.

I don't think so. This disclaimer is not a license. The work I've done is only
provided to FSF and then FSF publish it under GPL. In my opinion there's no
way for proprietary software to re-use this work. That's why I think that BSD
license is worse than this kind of disclaimer.

> > 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.

Yes but again this disclaimer is not a public license, it's some kind of
private contract between FSF and a contributor.

--
Bruno

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