[License-review] For Legacy Approval: TOPPERS License

[Yutaka MATSUBARA]

Hi Richard,

Thank you for your following-up comment.

We can use a professional translation service if it will be needed.
But, I don't think that it's the best way to show the accuracy of our 
translation because results from a translation service would depend on 
background or knowledge of translators.

In our intention in the affidavit, the lawyer who has deep knowledge 
about computer science and open-source software validates the 
translation and has the responsibility to attest to the accuracy of 
the translation of the Japanese license.

Do you agree with the above approach?

Thanks,
Yutaka

On 10/15/15 15:20, Richard Fontana wrote:
> Hi Yutaka,
>
> Following up here. I believe I may have misunderstood the nature of
> your draft affidavit. Anyway, is there any possibility you could use a
> professional translation service -- whether to provide a fresh
> certified translation of the Japanese license (which we can then
> compare to the English TOPPERS license in its latest iteration) or,
> perhaps more problematically, to attest to the accuracy of that latest
> iteration as a true translation of the Japanese license?
>
> Richard
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 06:21:51PM -0700, Yutaka MATSUBARA wrote:
>> Hello Richard,
>>
>> I created a draft of the affidavit for TOPPERS License and uploaded here.
>>
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/u8jla5lgql6wb2q/AffidavitOfTOPPERSLicenseAsInternationalLicense-draft-1.pdf?dl=0
>>
>> By this affidavit, we will declare the followings.
>>
>> - both of the submitted English-language license and the Japanese-language
>> license are official and,
>> - the translation from Japanese to English had been done by the chair of the
>> project and me. And, the lawyer validated the translation.
>>
>> Could you confirm it and give me some comments if you find.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Yutaka
>>
>> On 9/14/15 10:32, Yutaka MATSUBARA wrote:
>>> Hi Richard,
>>>
>>> Thank you for the results.
>>>
>>> The approval process for International License seems to be
>>> complicated, but I'll try to do it.
>>>
>>>> In the license-review discussion it was not fully clear (and is not
>>>> fully clear from examination of the TOPPERS project website[1])
>>>> whether the operative license for the project thus far has been the
>>>> English-language license submitted for legacy approval (though
>>>> twice-amended in the course of license-review discussion), or a
>>>> Japanese-language original of which the submitted English-language
>>>> text is an official (from the project's perspective) translation, or
>>>> perhaps both.
>>>
>>>  From the TOPPERS project's perspective, both of the submitted
>>> English-language license and the Japanese-language license are official.
>>>
>>>> We ask the license submitter to clarify whether there is a
>>>> Japanese-language license that governs (exclusively or otherwise) the
>>>> TOPPERS project. If so, we ask the license submitter to seek approval
>>>> for that license as an 'International License' in accordance with the
>>>> proposed procedure outlined by Mike Milinkovich on license-discuss
>>>> back in June:
>>>> https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss/2015-June/001857.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> One concern here is that we wouldn't want to approve an English
>>>> language version of a license (even if 'official') if there is also an
>>>> official non-English counterpart license that has not specifically
>>>> undergone OSI review, because of the potential for confusion and the
>>>> possibility of substantive deviation from the Japanese-language
>>>> license text. It is conceivable that examination of the
>>>> non-English-language license would result in a conclusion that it is
>>>> not OSD-conformant even if there was also a conclusion that the
>>>> submitted English-language license is OSD-conformant.
>>>
>>> I understood your discussions and concerns about international
>>> licenses. According to the International License approval process, we
>>> would like to prepare and submit an affidavit for the TOPPERS License.
>>>
>>> May I have some questions about this?
>>>
>>> - Do you have a format or an example of the affidavit?
>>> - In our case, the translation from Japanese to English has been done
>>> by the chair of the project and me, a committee member of the project.
>>> And, the lawyer has been validated the translation. In our affidavit,
>>> is information (full name, contacts etc.) about the translators is
>>> enough? Or, information of the layer is needed as well?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Yutaka
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