Launchpad itself

Provide licence of Launchpad Translations

Bug #375944 reported by Matthew Revell
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Launchpad itself
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Karl Fogel
Launchpad itself 2.2.6

Bug Description

What exactly is the license text of LP translations? And who are the copyright holders?

The OSI provides a license template: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php
Is the third clause necessary? If so, with what shall I replace <ORGANIZATION>?
The beginning of the license states the license holders: Copyright (c) <YEAR>, <OWNER>, with what shall I replace <YEAR> and <OWNER>?
The last paragraph states that this software is provided "as is", is this paragraph included in the license? Isn't misleading to talk about software when actually it's just text?

It would be helpful if the following help documents gave the exact text of the BSD license mentionned.
https://help.launchpad.net/Translations/LicensingFAQ
https://help.launchpad.net/TermsofUse

Matthew Revell (matthew.revell)
Changed in rosetta:
assignee: nobody → Matthew Revell (matthew.revell)
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → 2.2.5
status: New → Triaged
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Matthew Revell (matthew.revell) wrote :

Karl, would you be able to take a look at this for the 2.2.6 cycle? I think you're better placed to handle it.

Changed in rosetta:
assignee: Matthew Revell (matthew.revell) → Karl Fogel (kfogel)
milestone: 2.2.5 → 2.2.6
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Karl Fogel (kfogel) wrote :

I believe this is resolved now. See

  https://help.launchpad.net/Translations/LicensingFAQ#license-text

That section is now linked to from appropriate places elsewhere in the page. And https://help.launchpad.net/TermsofUse now refers the reader to the above page for details.

It's true that the license talks about "software" rather than text, but Launchpad translations are part of software, and the application of the license's terms to translated material is straightforward.

The "Copyright (c) <YEAR>, <OWNER>" isn't actuall part of the license itself, I believe. It's part of what the OSI calls the "prelude": essentially, a header one would write to establish one's identity and the scope of one's copyright claim, before listing the copyright terms themselves -- if one were producing a copyright notice in a file, which we're not really doing here, IIUC.

Do the changes look okay to you, Matthew?

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Matthew Revell (matthew.revell) wrote :

This looks great to me, thanks Karl.

Changed in rosetta:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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