On Thu, 2020-01-09 at 14:46 -0500, Tom Callaway wrote: > In the US, translations are an original copyrighted work, not a > derivative > copyrighted work. > > That said, the Fedora FPCA is different from most CLAs, in that its > sole > purpose is to ensure that Fedora has permission to use contributions > without an explicit license under a Free license (MIT for code, CC- > BY-SA > for content). If a contribution is made with a different Free license > (e.g. > same as the upstream), Fedora uses that licensing. > > So, lets step through the process: > > = No explicit license = > 1. A Fedora contributor makes translation changes and contributes > their > changes to Fedora, without indicating a license. > 2. The Fedora FPCA says that Fedora (and anyone who receives that > contribution from Fedora) can use that change under CC-BY-SA (I'm > guessing > that translations count as content). > 3. The upstream can take the changes from Fedora under CC-BY-SA. > > OR > > = Explicit license = > 1. A Fedora contributor makes translation changes and contributes > their > changes to Fedora under a specific license (e.g. BSD, because that is > what > upstream uses). > 2. Fedora takes those contributions under the BSD license. (The FPCA > permits this, as long as the license is acceptable for Fedora, aka, a > Free > license.) > 3. The upstream can take the changes from Fedora under BSD. The way I see it, it’s impossible to verify whether all contributions came implicitly-licensed, so would it be a safe assumption now to mark the license in Weblate as CC-BY-SA-3.0? Neither Zanata nor Weblate really account for each contribution possibly being licensed differently. > Does that help? Yes, it does, thank you. -- Ernestas Kulik Associate Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems (Core Services/ABRT) Red Hat Czech, s.r.o. _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to legal-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
