Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I've used Launchpad somewhat for translating and it's friendly to > contributors & has an active community, but it seems to require that > we BSD-license our translations[1], which would be a showstopper since > we'd have to contact everyone who's been submitting GPL-2-only strings > to Git for the last 5 years. I don't think so: ,----[ https://help.launchpad.net/Translations/LicensingFAQ ] | I have no problem with BSD myself, but I also uploaded translations | from upstream. What do I do? | | As long as the uploads were marked as translations that were published | elsewhere, they fall under a separate copyright regime: those imports | will retain their original copyright license. The BSD licence only | applies to translations that are (as far as the system knows) original | to Launchpad. `---- So, my understanding is: Git's code, and strings, would remain what they are, but things contributed _through launchpad_ would be BSD. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html