Relicensing pt_BR translation file

[Martin Geisler]

Wagner Bruna <wagner.bruna+mercurial at gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> We (Diego Oliveira and me) relicensed our pt_BR translation work as
> 3-clause BSD, for the benefit of the TortoiseHg translation¹. Would it
> be possible (and desirable) for the Mercurial project to distribute
> its i18n/pt_BR.po file (or, more precisely, its Brazilian Portuguese
> strings) as 3-clause BSD (therefore including future contributions)?

I agree with Matt -- Canonical's idea that you can license the
translations differently than the rest of the project is strange.

However, the FAQ you linked also has a section about uploading upstream
translations which fall under another license. So can you not somehow
mark the translation in Launchpad as GPL and then still use Launchpad?

-- 
Martin Geisler

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