[kepler-dev] [kepler-leadership] release of Ukranian version of Getting Started Guide

Christopher Brooks cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu
Tue Oct 13 19:31:47 PDT 2009


Sure, place it under CC-BY.
_Christopher

Matt Jones wrote:
> The original Getting Started Guide was written by a combination of UC 
> academics, UC staff, UNM staff, and a contractor-for-hire for UNM ( a 
> work for hire). Thus it is a joint work, and my assessment is that the 
> copyright is held jointly by UC and UNM, with each having full rights in 
> the work.  It was released without a copyright statement, and without a 
> licensing statement.  As a consequence, its probably not technically 
> legal for others to modify or redistribute it at all (i.e., the lack of 
> a copyright statement does not in any way reduce our rights). We should 
> remedy that, which I would be happy to do.  The BSD license doesn't 
> necessarily work for text documents, but we could release it under a 
> CC-BY license which I think is equivalent for copyrighted texts.  Would 
> everyone be happy with that?
> 
> The same would apply to the User's manual and actor reference.
> 
> I'm sure that translation requires permission of the original copyright 
> holder.  I don't know if the original copyright holder automatically 
> holds copyright on a translated document -- we should probably check.  
> As Loy is from Ukraine, US law may not even govern for his 
> translation.   If we don't have copyright on the translations, we should 
> be sure that Loy is willing to release it under an acceptable license.  
> Same is true for the Japanese version.  The easiest way to do this is to 
> add the CC-BY license right into the text of the original and translated 
> documents.  I could do this if we agree to this approach.
> 
> Matt
> 
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Christopher Brooks 
> <cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu <mailto:cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     I'm fine with a Ukrainian version of the docs.
> 
>     Interesting question about licensing.  The primary issue
>     is the licensing of the document, it would be good for the
>     Regents to retain the copyright.
> 
>     _Christopher
> 
> 
>     Mark Schildhauer wrote:
> 
>         Same here...
> 
>         Question-- was there some specification in English about the
>         licensing of Kepler?  Should we require some such English
>         language statement in any international release?
> 
>         Mark
> 
>         Timothy McPhillips wrote:
> 
>             Sounds good to me!
> 
>             Tim
> 
>             On Oct 13, 2009, at 5:06 PM, Ilkay Altintas wrote:
> 
>                 I support it.
> 
>                 -ilkay
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> 
>                 On Oct 13, 2009, at 5:05 PM, Matt Jones wrote:
> 
>                     Anatoly Loy has produced a Ukranian translation of
>                     the Kepler 1.0.0 Getting Started Guide.  This
>                     closely follows the existing English and Japanese
>                     versions.  Anatoly has requested that we release the
>                     Ukranian version from the Kepler web site.  I
>                     indirectly asked for a review of the translation on
>                     kepler-dev, and not surprisingly, none was
>                     forthcoming. So I think we should go ahead and
>                     release it.  I said I would clear this with the
>                     leadership team.    Any objections to me moving it
>                     to the web site under Documentation?
> 
>                        
>                     http://code.kepler-project.org/code/kepler-docs/trunk/outreach/documentation/shipping/getting-started-guide_uk.pdf
> 
>                     Matt
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