Re-Translations Amnesty

This is a more technical sort of post: there's no release here, and the message below is addressed exclusively to the staff of non-English scanlation groups -- if that doesn't apply to you, you can comfortably skip this one.

Now, as anybody who's asked us for permission to re-translate something in about the last six months (at minimum) might have realised: we've managed to build up a very significant backlog of unanswered requests. There's no good reason why this should be the case, except that I've been too busy/lazy to attend to them: they're time-consuming to address and we get a lot of them, basically -- not that this is a good reason but it's the actual reason, unfortunately. Of course I should make clear that this is nobody's fault (except my own): we invite people to ask for permission for these things and almost no individual email is hard to deal with: it's the cumulative effect of all the emails we get, has become the problem. I've been meaning for a long while to sit down and finally get around to straightening the situation out, but I haven't yet found myself with enough time, regrettably. So I've decided it might be best to try to adopt a new approach, both to clear out the amount of unanswered emails as have arisen prior to now, and also to ease the load I have to deal with in the future.

So our new policy for re-translations is as follows. If it's something which I've scanned (that is, if the raws are credited to Rezonville, which is the vast majority of our releases now), then we hereby allow any and all groups to re-translate them without needing to ask for permission. This applies to anything we've released prior to this post, and anything we release subsequent to it. I'm going to ask people to essentially use their common sense here: if you want to release something of ours in another language, have a check to see if anybody else has released it in that language first, and obviously if another group has priority then let them get on with it. Our permissions list is very out-of-date at this point and should not be relied on.

If you've emailed us asking to re-translate something which is a Rezonville scan, and I haven't answered you, then the above paragraph is your answer -- you have permission, as does everybody else in your language. If any situations have arisen where your group was waiting for permission and, while it was waiting, was beaten by another group which went ahead and used our releases without asking, then I very sincerely apologise.

If the scans are by anybody else, then please email us in the usual way. If you've emailed us about a release like this, and haven't received a response, please re-send your message.

In all cases, we'd be grateful if you could leave our credits in your re-translated release.

And I think that's all, please let me know if you have any queries,