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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Authors/developers/teams/maintainers
From:       Alexander Potashev <aspotashev () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-01-26 12:47:07
Message-ID: 20100126124707.GA23813 () myhost
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I might have been unclear, sorry for that. But I'm talking only about
copyright notices, like these:
	(c) 1996-2008 The KDM Authors
	(c) 1998-2003, The KDE Developers
	(C) 1997-2008, KDE Developers
	(c) 1999-2002, The KPPP Developers
	(C) 2004-2007 by KTabEdit Development Team
	(c) 2002-2010, digiKam developers team
	(C) 2000-2008, KDE Team
	Copyright 2006-2009, The KDE Team
	(c) 2002 KDE Information Control Module Samba Team
	(c) 1999-2003, The KDE Team
	(c) 2003-2009 KioskTool Maintainers


On 13:29 Tue 26 Jan     , Anne-Marie Mahfouf wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 January 2010 12:58:13 Alexander Potashev wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have noticed that there is no order in the way of calling people who
> > took part in making KDE applications. These are the templates I've found:
> > 	Xxxxx Authors
> > 	Xxxxx Developers
> > 	Xxxxx Development Team
> > 	Xxxxx developers team
> > 	Xxxxx Team (including `KDE Team'/`The KDE Team')
> > 	Xxxxx Maintainers
> > 
> > 
> > What's the reason for such a divergency? Is it OK to always call
> > the copyright owners "authors" or "developers" when translating the
> > copyright notices?
> Author is the person who started the software.
> Maintainer is the person who is developing it right now and is in charge of 
> it.
> Development Team is not a valid copyright. Same for developers team and Team I 
> suggest you ask some other list if this is a valid copyright.
> Maintainers are a group of people currently maintaining the software.
> Note that I am writing about copyright ownership here.
> 
> Example: I started KHangMan in kdeedu. I am the author. At some point I could 
> not develop it anymore and some other developer took it: he became maintainer. 
> He kept me in the credits.
> Then he went away and I got time to maintain it thus I became maintainer as 
> well as author.
> 
> If you have examples of copyright to some team please let me know so I can 
> enquire about it. 
> 
> As a translator however you need to translate the strings as they are. 
> Maintainer is not author. Developer is useually a person who is not the main 
> responsible for the program but who helped a lot with it.
> 
> Anne-Marie
> 
> 

-- 
Alexander Potashev
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