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Re: Using freetranslation.mobi to translate .po files



On Mon, 26 Mar 2012, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
The translator would be violating the GPL, but since this is fair use,
violating the GPL this way would be legal.
What is the translator doing in the example we are discussing that is
violating the GPL?  Please explain more, as I failed to understand
what you mean from your terse comment.  Which action is violating the
GPL?

The translator is creating a derivative work (his translation) and
distributing it.  This is one of the rights of the copyright holder and
the GPL only gives him permission to do this if he puts his derivative work
under GPL.  Since he did not put this derived work under GPL, the GPL
grants him no permission to distribute it, and he would be in violation of
copyright if it wasn't for fair use.


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