Hello Clytie, I remember a huge thread on this topic in one of the distributions (Mandrake, I think).
I think the bottom line is that one should use the copyright header that has been agreed within the product. -- Regards, Aiet Kolkhi http://www.Gakartuleba.org On 6/6/05, Clytie Siddall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have another developer query: > > On 06/06/2005, at 4:44 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > The po file you sent includes this header: > > > > # Vietnamese Translation for freetds. > > # Copyright (c) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > # Clytie Siddall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2005. > > > > Has the copyright for this translation actually been assigned to > > the FSF? > > If so, under what license is it being made available to Debian? > > I always use that header, since it's supposed to _avoid_ all > copyright hassles. As a Translation Project translator, I have signed > a disclaimer giving all copyright in my OSS work to the FSF. Should I > be using something different? > > <mutters wildly and grabs another debconf file> > > from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm > Việt hóa phần mềm tự do) > > Clytie Siddall--Renmark, in the Riverland of South Australia > > Ở thành phố Renmark, tại miền sông của Nam Úc > >

