[Fwd: Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Usage of auto translate]

[noriko]

It is requested that 'auto translate' function to be be disabled. Please 
refrain from using.

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Subject: Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Usage of auto translate
Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 12:30:55 -0400
From: Tom Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com>
To: noriko at fedoraproject.org
CC: legal at lists.fedoraproject.org, Dimitris Glezos <glezos at indifex.com>
References: <4DC75771.507 at fedoraproject.org>

On 05/08/2011 10:54 PM, noriko wrote:
> Doesn't it violate any copy right at all, if entire guide or some part 
> of a guide or a full sentence in a guide uses precisely exact copy of 
> the auto translated string(s)? Can we safely utilize this function in full?

Copyright is less of an issue here, to be honest, than the terms of the
Google Translate API. You can read the Google Translate API Terms of Use
here: http://code.google.com/apis/language/translate/terms.html

The TOU says upon termination, "You shall immediately delete any and all
Google Results". This causes a serious problem for us, as there are many
ways that the TOU could be terminated (by us or Google).

I've CC'd Dimitris Glezos on this, Dimitris, can this Google
Auto-Translate functionality be disabled in the Fedora Transifex instance?

~tom

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