Hi Gurban, Today at 12:09, Gurban M. Tewekgeli wrote:
> I have a question about licensing of PO files. > We know GNOME is a GNU project and writing the line > "Copyright (c) 2005 Free Software Foundation" > in PO file jeaders is correct. That's actually *not* correct. Not all GNU projects assign copyright to FSF, and Gnome is one of those which don't. While you might assign copyright on your translations to FSF, there's not much benefit in it (unless everybody else does it), and you need to do it explicitely and formally. You should put copyright notices creditting anyone who actually did the translation (though, technically, a translation is a derivative work of the original, so original strings are copyrighted by software author, and only translations are copyrighted by translators). > But about non GNU > projects can we apply this license to the PO file. For all of the projects you need to use a *compatible* license, and most likely, the same license (since you're asking this question in the first place, you probably don't want to delve into the problems of handling multiple licenses). I.e. put a notice that says that your translation is licensed under the same conditions as the original software. Cheers, Danilo _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
