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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Questions about the new copyright of translation files
From:       Yukiko Bando <ybando () k6 ! dion ! ne ! jp>
Date:       2007-05-17 10:26:56
Message-ID: 200705171926.56389.ybando () k6 ! dion ! ne ! jp
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Federico Zenith wrote:
> > 1. YEAR
> > Should it be 2007 or something like 2004-2007 if the file is old?
>
> It is in fact a relic of previous legislation (it used to be
> obligatory, under US law, to claim copyright in order to obtain it).
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright#Copyright_notices
>
> Currently, it is just a matter of tradition and an old habit, and is
> unnecessary for all countries in the Berne convention (which is all the
> world, except parts of Indochina, Africa's east coast, Iran and its
> neighbouring countries).
>
> How you actually write it is pretty much up to you, since it does not
> carry legal weight. If KDE does not have a policy in place, every
> translator could just as well reformat it or drop it entirely.

Rinse de Vries wrote:
> > 2. PACKAGE
> > For kabc.po in kdepimlibs, should it be kabc or kdepimlibs?  How
> > about files in extragear and playground?
>
> for extragear and playground it's easy: use the name of the application
> (e.g. k3b, amarok, etc.)

Thank you both for the replies.

I'll add these lines to every file I update

# Copyright (C) 2007 (or YYYY-2007) This_file_is_part_of_KDE
# This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package.

and, for those not in extragear or playground, replace PACKAGE with 
something later.  

Yukiko
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