[Xfce-i18n] pt_BR translations update

Daichi Kawahata daichi at xfce.org
Tue Nov 22 14:36:25 CET 2005


On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:35:19 -0500
Rudy Godoy wrote:

> >   # Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER
> > 
> > as you see, the copyright holder for PO files would be the one
> > who has copyright of entire package, in other words, core
> > developer(s) of that package, the reason I've been considering
> > it's good for the package maintenance is that if copyright holding
> > will be allowed individually, next case can be happened; While
> > first translator refers his/her copyright and licenses under GPL,
> > second translator tries to re-license with LGPL/BSD (because a
> > translator though GPL was too strict), at the same time, Debian
> > package maintainer struggles with those licenses.
> 
> Second and posterior translators can't relicense the work since they
> are not the copyright holders. Only a copyright holder can relicense
> a work. I didn't understand the Debian maintainer issue, I don't
> recall we[0] had such a situation.

Good to hear, then my concerns could be replaced, `What if you'll happen
to see the case below?'

  http://foo-projects.org/pipermail/xfce4-commits/2005-September/018283.html

  --- xfce-mcs-manager/branches/xfce_4_2/po/en_GB.po  2005-09-26 08:35:08 UTC (rev 17839)
  +++ xfce-mcs-manager/branches/xfce_4_2/po/en_GB.po  2005-09-26 09:35:25 UTC (rev 17840)
  @@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
   # British English translations for xfce-mcs-manager package.
  -# Copyright (C) 2004 Zuza Software Foundation (Translate.org.za)
  +# Copyright (C) 2002-2005 The Xfce development team.

  --- xfce-mcs-manager/branches/xfce_4_2/po/lt.po 2005-09-26 08:35:08 UTC (rev 17839)
  +++ xfce-mcs-manager/branches/xfce_4_2/po/lt.po 2005-09-26 09:35:25 UTC (rev 17840)
  @@ -1,16 +1,15 @@
   # Lithuanian translation of xfce-mcs-manager.
  -# Copyright (C) 2003 LGPL Licence.
  +# Copyright (C) 2002-2005 The Xfce development team.

On a side note,

  http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/x/xfce-mcs-manager/
  xfce-mcs-manager_4.2.2-1/copyright

I was not sure how they could be treated in Debian policy.

Regards,
-- 
Daichi

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