Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Re: L10n compatibility with Apache OO

Thanks for explanation,

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Alex Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com> wrote:
> Le 15/11/2013 02:53, Baurzhan Muftakhidinov a écrit :
>
> Hi,
>
>
> > I am the main translator of LibreOffice to Kazakh language.
> >
> > I also want to import my work (Kazakh translation) to Apache OO (in the
> > future).
> >
> > Can I just take and upload it there? What about license,
> > I mean I have already contributed my work to LO, and it is
> > under LGPLv3 and MPL now. Is it compatible with Apache OO?
>
>
>
> Translators' copyright is a derivative or adaptation right, i.e. although it
> benefits from copyright under most legal systems, it still depends on the
> original right, and therefore licence of the original work. What this means
> is that a translator can not necessarily relicence his/her work in a way
> that deviates from the licence of the original work.
>
> Additionally, there is the fact that you are only the "main" translator,
> which implies that others have participated in the work.

I said 'main' because I convinced several people to help me, but their share
is around 280 messages in total. I can surely ask for their permissions.

> Where a work (here the translation) can be deemed to be collective, i.e. the
> individual elements can not be dissociated from the whole, then the rights
> holder can effect the licence change on behalf of the contributors. However,
> the LO project doesn't have a single rights holder, unlike the Apache
> Foundation, which is why each contributor is asked to release their
> contribution under an individual licence statement.
>
> What this means for the translation is that each contributor would have to
> agree to the change in licence if you wanted to submit the whole work to the
> Apache Foundation. The alternative is to relicence only those parts of the
> translation for which you were the author, although perhaps a Kazakh
> translation already partly existed within OOo and this got carried over in
> the grant to the Apache Foundation, in which case you could merge your own
> translations into it ? You would have to ask on the AOO lists to find out.
>
> Alex

Thanks, I will ask in the AOO lists.

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