Licensing change: Audacious - GPLv3 --> BSD

Simo Sorce simo at redhat.com
Tue Jul 10 11:06:56 UTC 2012


On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 15:30 -0400, Tom Callaway wrote:
> On 07/09/2012 03:21 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> >> and arbitrary other people, who get their patch contributions merged,
> >> > don't gain any copyright protection on the file or the proper parts of it,
> > I don't think this is true.
> 
> Agreed. It is my opinion that this is not the case, assuming that the
> changes are substantial enough to be copyrightable.
> 
> I'm otherwise refraining from comment on this thread, because it is
> unclear as to whether translations are copyrightable or not.

Translated books are certainly copyrightable and have a separate
copyright than the original, I do not see why translations of programs
should not assuming entire phrases are translated and not single terms.

Simo.

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