Re: [PATCH/RFC 00/17] Begin gettextizing Git

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [off-list ref] writes:

I've used Launchpad somewhat for translating and it's friendly to
contributors & has an active community, but it seems to require that
we BSD-license our translations[1], which would be a showstopper since
we'd have to contact everyone who's been submitting GPL-2-only strings
to Git for the last 5 years.

I don't think so:

,----[ https://help.launchpad.net/Translations/LicensingFAQ ]
| I have no problem with BSD myself, but I also uploaded translations
| from upstream. What do I do?
| 
| As long as the uploads were marked as translations that were published
| elsewhere, they fall under a separate copyright regime: those imports
| will retain their original copyright license. The BSD licence only
| applies to translations that are (as far as the system knows) original
| to Launchpad.
`----

So, my understanding is: Git's code, and strings, would remain what
they are, but things contributed _through launchpad_ would be BSD.

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