I couldn't dwelve into the TOS, but as I see it you start with a GFDL text and end up uploading a text directly to Wikipedia; which implies that Google is okay with their text being used that way (you don't have to copy-paste, google uploads the text for you, although it is saved under your username, the edit summary and the text linking back to the oiginal soure article). I guess, what's more interesting than adhering to Wikimedia's licensing terms (which is implicit in the process) is what rights does Google gain to your improved sentence-by-sentence translations. (They certainly use it as translation suggestions, for one).
Best regards, Bence Damokos On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 00:54, geni<geni...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2009/6/9 Brian <brian.min...@colorado.edu>: > >> We should take the ToS to make sure the translated text can be CC-BY-SA > >> licensed. > >> > >> /Brian > > > > Under Google's TOS you cannot enter CC or GFDL produced by someone > > else into the translation tool. > > Where exactly do the TOS say it? I couldn't find it. > > They would never find out about it anyway. In the current state of > things, any machine-translated text has to be edited manually and thus > it is not very different from translating a text using a dictionary - > and i believe that a human translator doesn't have to pay per-word > royalties to the dictionary publisher. > > An unedited machine-translated text is likely to be speedily deleted > as patent nonsense, before copyvio is even considered. > > -- > אמיר אלישע אהרוני > Amir Elisha Aharoni > > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > > "We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace." - T. Moore > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l