Getting Wine's PO files on Launchpad

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Tue Sep 6 20:09:15 CDT 2011


On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 11:30, Scott Ritchie <scott at open-vote.org> wrote:
> On 09/05/2011 04:46 AM, Henri Verbeet wrote:
>> On 5 September 2011 10:38, Michael Stefaniuc <mstefani at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Permission to relicense the existing translations with a BSD license...
>>> https://help.launchpad.net/Translations/StartingToTranslate#Licensing_your_translations
>>> The license itself is sane but it will require quite some work and time
>>> to accomplish the relicensing.
>>>
>> While BSD is an acceptable license, I can't say I'm really a fan, or
>> that it's something I'd like to encourage. I'm probably the only one
>> with that opinion though, and not much of a translator.
>
> I think the technical reason for this is that launchpad has a growing
> intelligence about suggested translations built on its evergrowing
> database of translations.  That requires a permissive license for its
> new translations, since the suggestions could be applied to different
> projects that might fall under different copyrights.

There's at least one other option:
http://translationproject.org/html/welcome.html

-- 
-Austin



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