On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 15:34 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 21:22 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > > There were a post in fedora-list earlier asking if they have the > > permission to translate announcements. We might clarify the copyright > > license on announcements to allow this. > > IANAL but I heard from one recently at Red Hat who said, "Make it all > OPL!" Or words to that effect. > > Let's make it obvious that announcements, board minutes, etc. are all > 100% libre forever. IANAL either, but licensing this stuff may be overkill: http://www.piercelaw.edu/tfield/copynet.htm Stuff like this that is disseminated over public email lists has VERY broad fair use. If the text at the above link is an accurate assessment, it seems that even trying to artificially exclude, through copyright, a lot of the uses we care about (redistribution, translation) is not necessarily effective. If we don't make any express limitations on this material and send it over public email lists, I think translators should be told "There's no issue with this, please feel free to translate." Translation, especially in a project that has global participation and aspiration, and that encourages same, is a no-brainer. If copyright was a real factor here, wouldn't that kind of put the kibosh on things like Babelfish, Google Translations, etc.? -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Documentation Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/
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