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What exactly is the license text of LP translations?

Asked by David D Lowe

What exactly is the license text of LP translations? And who are the copyright holders?

The OSI provides a license template: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php
Is the third clause necessary? If so, with what shall I replace <ORGANIZATION>?
The beginning of the license states the license holders: Copyright (c) <YEAR>, <OWNER>, with what shall I replace <YEAR> and <OWNER>?
The last paragraph states that this software is provided "as is", is this paragraph included in the license? Isn't misleading to talk about software when actually it's just text?

It would be helpful if the following help documents gave the exact text of the BSD license mentionned.
https://help.launchpad.net/Translations/LicensingFAQ
https://help.launchpad.net/TermsofUse

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Данило Шеган (danilo) said : 		#1

Copyright holders are translators for translations themselves, but along with software authors because translations are derivative works. Year of the copyright is when translations were made. This is why we are not keeping a "full" copy of the license anywhere, though I agree we should fix that and use generic terms like "Launchpad contributors" and years since Launchpad was created to today.

Organization is the only easy one: Canonical Ltd.

I'll work with my colleague Matt Revell to provide such a license on help.launchpad.net.

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