Licensing change: Audacious - GPLv3 --> BSD

[Tom Callaway]

On 07/10/2012 07:06 AM, Simo Sorce wrote:
> 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.

I'm not taking sides on this issue, merely pointing out that it is unclear.

~tom

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