On 09/05/2011 04:46 AM, Henri Verbeet wrote: > On 5 September 2011 10:38, Michael Stefaniuc <mstef...@redhat.com> wrote: >> Permission to relicense the existing translations with a BSD license... >> https://help.launchpad.net/Translations/StartingToTranslate#Licensing_your_translations >> The license itself is sane but it will require quite some work and time >> to accomplish the relicensing. >> > While BSD is an acceptable license, I can't say I'm really a fan, or > that it's something I'd like to encourage. I'm probably the only one > with that opinion though, and not much of a translator.
I think the technical reason for this is that launchpad has a growing intelligence about suggested translations built on its evergrowing database of translations. That requires a permissive license for its new translations, since the suggestions could be applied to different projects that might fall under different copyrights. Thanks, Scott Ritchie