[SciPy-Dev] I want to do some translation about the SciPy Reference Guide

[josef.pktd at gmail.com]

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 09:26, Charles R Harris
> <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at googlemail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 7:38 PM, 江大伟 <zw4131 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Hi guys
>>> > I am a Chinese postgraduate student in the Australian National
>>> > University.
>>> > And I am using SciPy to develop some machine learning algorithms. But I
>>> > found I could not use classes and functions smoothly, because I often
>>> > encountered many technical and mathematical words which I could
>>> > understand
>>> > in Chinese but couldn’t in English. So I was often interrupted when I
>>> > was
>>> > thinking, which was quite annoying.
>>> > So I guess it is absolutely a major stumbling block for other Chinese
>>> > students to use SciPy. You can’t expect them to learn English well as
>>> > well
>>> > as mathematics.
>>> > So I want to translate the SciPy Reference Guide into Chinese.
>>> > Is it ok? Can you give me some advice or some help?
>>>
>>> It would be great to have more accessible documentation for Chinese
>>> speakers. I would suggest a translation of the first part of the Scipy
>>> Reference Guide, the tutorial
>>> (http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/tutorial/index.html). The
>>> rest of the Reference Guide is autogenerated from docstrings, which I
>>> don't think is feasible to translate for several reasons (no toolchain
>>> support, not maintainable, too much work). We could distribute the
>>> tutorial separately from the rest of the reference guide, this is done
>>> for Numpy too.
>>>
>>> You can find the sources for the tutorial under doc/source/tutorial/.
>>> If you think this is the right way to go, it should be easy to jump
>>> in.
>>
>> Is the documentation copyrighted? If not, should it be?
>
> Everything is copyrighted, by the Berne Convention. Everything in the
> numpy distribution, source code and documentation alike (not least
> because most of it is *in* the code), is under the BSD license except
> for certain exceptions noted in individual files.

To follow Ralf's look at the details of BSD

"Redistribution and use in source and binary forms"  does not include
printed form, nor other processed sphinx docs (html, pdf, ...)

So it's not clear (to me) what usage the BSD license allows for the
documentation, i.e. processed rst files and sphinx docs.

Josef

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