Re: JPUG wants to have a copyright notice on the translated doc

> On 03/04/2016 05:39 PM, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>> JPUG (Japan PostgreSQL Users Group) would like to add a copyright
>> ntice to the Japanese translated docs.
>>
>> http://www.postgresql.jp/document/9.5/html/
>>
>> Currently "Copyright 1996-2016 The PostgreSQL Global Development
>> Group" is showed on the translated doc (of course in Japanese). What
>> JPUG is wanting is, adding something like "Copyright 2016 Japan
>> PostgreSQL Users Group" to this.
> 
> As I understand it the translation would be copyrighted by the people
> that do the translation so it is perfectly reasonable to have JPUG
> hold the copyright for the .jp translation.

Thanks for clarification.

>> The reason for this is, "Copyright 1996-2016 The PostgreSQL Global
>> Development Group" may not be effective from the point of Japan laws
>> because "The PostgreSQL Global Development Group" is not a valid
>> entity to be copyright holder according to Japan's laws. To prevent
>> from abuses of the translated docs, JPUG thinks that JPUG needs to add
>> the copyright notice by JPUG to the Japanese translated docs (note
>> that JPUG is a registered non profit organization and can be a
>> copyright holder).
> 
> Considering they are BSD licensed, I am not sure what abuses could be
> taken?

I imagine kind of an extream case: a bad guy removes "Copyright
1996-2016 The PostgreSQL Global Development Group" and replaces it
with his/her copyright.

Best regards,
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php
Japanese:http://www.sraoss.co.jp