Copyright assignment for manual translations?

Copyright assignment for manual translations?

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

I just want to confirm that Emacs manuals translations require a 
copyright assignment to the FSF for publication within Emacs, but not 
for publication in other places (as long as publication follows the 
licence).

Am I correct?

-- 
Jean-Christophe Helary
@jchelary@emacs.ch
https://sr.ht/~brandelune/

Re: Copyright assignment for manual translations?

[Stefan Kangas]

Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traductaire-libre.org>
writes:

> I just want to confirm that Emacs manuals translations require a
> copyright assignment to the FSF for publication within Emacs, but not
> for publication in other places (as long as publication follows the
> licence).
>
> Am I correct?

I believe this is correct, yes.  Translations are allowed according to
the GFDL, so they don't need any copyright assignment to the FSF.  This
obviously assumes that they otherwise follow the license terms.

The Emacs project requires copyright assignment for any code and
documentation that we ship as a part of Emacs.

I'm copying in Richard as well, in case he has anything to add.

Re: Copyright assignment for manual translations?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 26 May 2024 05:19:35 -0400
> Cc: rms@gnu.org
> 
> Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traductaire-libre.org>
> writes:
> 
> > I just want to confirm that Emacs manuals translations require a
> > copyright assignment to the FSF for publication within Emacs, but not
> > for publication in other places (as long as publication follows the
> > licence).
> >
> > Am I correct?
> 
> I believe this is correct, yes.  Translations are allowed according to
> the GFDL, so they don't need any copyright assignment to the FSF.

I'm not sure.  If this is so, why does the copyright assignment
database includes assignments for TRANSLATIONS?  That's why I didn't
respond myself: I don't think we know all the details involved here.

I prefer RMS to answer this question (it basically is off-topic here,
and should have been sent to the relevant people to begin with).

Re: Copyright assignment for manual translations?

[Richard Stallman]

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Any user can publish a modified version of the GNU Emacs Manual
following the conditions stated in the GFDL for modified versions.
this does not require signing a copyright assignhment.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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