Hi Kostas, Kostas Koudaras wrote:
Ok people listen something I started the Greek translation and I worked the first issues with only another two persons, generally as I see things I made some serious work and I believe I followed all the rules and if I made a mistake somewhere believe me it was an honest mistake. I did all that because I wanted and still want to help the openSUSE project but I read various legal issues here that I don't understand and to be honest I don't really want to. That conversation is making people like me nervous, I don't want to read any terms carefully and if I do I will probably won't understand them, I am a firefighter,not a lawyer. Please someone explain in two words if it is possible how we should do the translation without having legal problems or any other problems, if that is not possible let me know and I will advise the Greek community to stop the Greek translation and after that it is in Greek peoples hands to decide. This is not in any way a threat to anyone but a logical move since none wants to risk having troubles with the law because he is voluntarily doing work in a project. At least not the people I call for help. I hope you understand my point of view.
I'm so sorry if I (or this discussion) made you get nervous. :-( As I wrote in another post, I think '99.99% we are safe, as long as we handle articles from external sites in OWN as is'. What I atempt to do in this thread is, removing the last 0.01% concern. Once we can clarify the license issue, we will be able to publish much more compliant OWN which can be translated without any concern. It's difficult to explain legal issues 'in two words', but respecting others rights might be the principle of our lives. You can understand, every author has his/her own right to control how his/her works should be deal with. Of course it would be best, if we can ask permission from copyright owner to draw, translate its work in our OWN each time we want to introduce it. But that cannot be done with current human resources of OWN team. And I think this matter affects not only OWN, but also whole community activities (that's why I posted this matter to -project list instead of -marketing list). For example, everyone can build and distribute packages of any softwares via OBS. That means, it is *technically* possible to distribute packages of softwares (for example, commercial applications from vendors such as Microsoft or Adobe or Oracle) which are not allowed to be re-distributed. Whether you like or not, you also have to care the license of others works even if you are not a lawyer. ;-) Best, -- _/_/ Satoru Matsumoto - openSUSE Member - Japan _/_/ _/_/ Marketing/Weekly News/openFATE Screening Team _/_/ _/_/ mail: helios_reds_at_gmx.net / irc: HeliosReds _/_/ _/_/ http://blog.zaq.ne.jp/opensuse/ _/_/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org