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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Copyright Note on .po files
From:       Stanislav Visnovsky <visnovsky () nenya ! ms ! mff ! cuni ! cz>
Date:       2002-06-24 10:46:52
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On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Thomas Diehl wrote:

> Am Montag, 24. Juni 2002 08:44 schrieb Andrea Rizzi:
> > > Andreas Pour came up with a suggestion that sounded good to me back then
> > > (http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-i18n-doc&m=101064906704108&w=2).
> >
> > I think can use Andreas Pour statment with all translators involved in that
> > translation listed. Of course we must use kbabel for this.
> >
> > # In addition to the copyright owners of the program which this translation
> > # accompanies, this translation is
> > # Copyright (C) YEAR TRANSLATOR
> > # Copyright (C) YEAR TRANSLATOR2
> > # Copyright (C) YEAR2 TRANSLATOR3
> > # This translation is subject to the same Open Source license as the
> > # program which it accompanies.
> >
> > It would also be nice to also add a line like:
> > #This translation is part of the KDE i18n project.
>
> And while we are at it, why not add another line with the URL of the
> i18n server or the team page? ;-)
>
> I forwarded this to Andreas, Chris Schläger and Martin Konold since they know
> a lot more about the legalese involved than I do. Let's see if they have any
> comments and/or objections.
>
> Anyway, I would Stanislav if he can find a way to implement something like
> this to the automatic header update in KBabel. It would also be great to have
> a routine for correcting all files of a given language (either via Catalog
> Manager or a script).

KBabel in HEAD supports updating the header (Andrea's original post shows
an automatically updated header). As to FSF copyright, you can leave it
untouched, update years or, if it is still a template (the year is not
filled in), it can be removed.

I'd like to wait for some kind of "official" copyright text just to see,
which macros are needed. The minor problem is that KBabel cannot use the
KDE copyright as a default, since a lot of people (like me) use it for
different projects as well. (ATM, don't ask me for the full project
support = file structure, accelerator character, encoding, etc)

As to correcting all files - IMHO this should be done on CVS server and
the template files can be generated using --copyright-holder or
--foreign-user of xgettext.

Stanislav

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