Re: Standard way to mention copyright holder in PO files

2007-07-10 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 07:11:41PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Hello, > On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 11:36:16PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > > Helge Kreutzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes. There is no public domain in Europe. [...] > > > > Hello debian-i18n, this is England calling! As I under

Re: Standard way to mention copyright holder in PO files

2007-07-10 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 06:01:11PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > Yes I have heard about this. Does that mean public domain is not a > > really valid concept in such countries? (I realize this is a legal > > quesiton and is probably off-topic on debian-i18n.) > > Yes. There is no public doma

Re: Standard way to mention copyright holder in PO files

2007-07-09 Thread Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/07/2007 11:19 AM, Nicolas François wrote: > Hello, > > It would be nice to have a standard way to mention copyright holders in PO > files. Currently, the copyright holders are mentioned (manually?) in the > comments of the header, for example us

Re: Standard way to mention copyright holder in PO files

2007-07-09 Thread MJ Ray
Helge Kreutzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 11:36:16PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > > Hello debian-i18n, this is England calling! [...] > > Yes, sorry, my mistake. I meant "continental Europe" [...] Although common among the red-tops, that phrase is also inaccurate: the island

Re: Standard way to mention copyright holder in PO files

2007-07-09 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello, On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 11:36:16PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > Helge Kreutzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes. There is no public domain in Europe. [...] > > Hello debian-i18n, this is England calling! As I understand it, we > have a public domain (so the above "there is no public domain i

Re: Standard way to mention copyright holder in PO files

2007-07-08 Thread MJ Ray
Helge Kreutzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 09:57:53AM -0500, Ming Hua wrote: > > Yes I have heard about this. Does that mean public domain is not a > > really valid concept in such countries? (I realize this is a legal > > quesiton and is probably off-topic on debian-i1

Re: Standard way to mention copyright holder in PO files

2007-07-08 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello, On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 09:57:53AM -0500, Ming Hua wrote: > On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 09:49:06AM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 08:54:08PM -0500, Ming Hua wrote: > > > What about the translations whose copyright is transfered to FSF (which > > > is acutally quite co

Re: Standard way to mention copyright holder in PO files

2007-07-08 Thread Ming Hua
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 02:14:11PM +0200, Nicolas François wrote: > On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 08:54:08PM -0500, Ming Hua wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 04:19:15PM +0200, Nicolas François wrote: > > > > I'm thinking about something like: > > > > > > "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Standard way to mention copyright holder in PO files

2007-07-08 Thread Ming Hua
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 09:49:06AM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 08:54:08PM -0500, Ming Hua wrote: > > What about the translations whose copyright is transfered to FSF (which > > is acutally quite common, either due to explicit request by FSF, such as > > all the TP trans

Re: Standard way to mention copyright holder in PO files

2007-07-08 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 09:49:06AM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Hello, > On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 08:54:08PM -0500, Ming Hua wrote: > > What about the translations whose copyright is transfered to FSF (which > > is acutally quite common, either due to explicit request by FSF, such as > >

Re: Standard way to mention copyright holder in PO files

2007-07-08 Thread Nicolas François
Hi, On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 08:54:08PM -0500, Ming Hua wrote: > On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 04:19:15PM +0200, Nicolas François wrote: > > > > I wonder if the copyright holders could not be specified in some header > > fields. PO editors could update automatically the list of copyright > > holders and

Re: Standard way to mention copyright holder in PO files

2007-07-08 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello, On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 08:54:08PM -0500, Ming Hua wrote: > What about the translations whose copyright is transfered to FSF (which > is acutally quite common, either due to explicit request by FSF, such as > all the TP translations, or due to careless translators just using the > default he

Re: Standard way to mention copyright holder in PO files

2007-07-07 Thread Ming Hua
On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 04:19:15PM +0200, Nicolas François wrote: > > I wonder if the copyright holders could not be specified in some header > fields. PO editors could update automatically the list of copyright > holders and dates. I agree with the general idea of unified format for copyright in

Standard way to mention copyright holder in PO files

2007-07-07 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, It would be nice to have a standard way to mention copyright holders in PO files. Currently, the copyright holders are mentioned (manually?) in the comments of the header, for example using the template generated by xgettext: # SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE. # Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COP