Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Fedora seems to violate the copyright of KDE

Dear colleagues,


fedora-websites-3-0 contains the following string:

Dragon Player is a multimedia player where the focus is on simplicity,
instead of features. Its simple interface is designed not to get in your
way and instead empower you to simply play multimedia files.

The above string can be found easily within Weblate by replacing
'state:<translated' (in the menu bar) with 'Dragon Player is' and typing
ENTER.

The above string is used on the following page:
https://fedoraproject.org/spins/lxqt/
and on every translation of that page,for example:
https://fedoraproject.org/nl/spins/lxqt/

However, it seems that the two sentences have been copied from:
https://apps.kde.org/dragonplayer/
This page is translated in many languages, you may have to use the
language selection menu at the top of the page to get the English version.

The aforementioned page of KDE has the following paragraph:

Dragon Player is a multimedia player where the focus is on simplicity,
instead of features. Dragon Player does one thing, and only one thing,
which is playing multimedia files. Its simple interface is designed not
to get in your way and instead empower you to simply play multimedia files.

Therefore, it appears that two of these three sentences have been
copied. In my judgement, this is a clear violation of copyright.

Violations of copyright can have very serious consequences. I recommend
that you replace your string as soon as possible.

Incidentally, it occurred to me that the Fedora website is not regularly
regenerated lately. My Dutch translations do not take effect on the
website lately. Perhaps someone is on holiday. Can't we have the Fedora
website regenerated every 24 hours automatically?


Kind regards,

Maarten


username: minerva
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