¡Hola Albert! Thanks for the follow up.
El 2018-07-19 a las 00:32 +0200, Albert Astals Cid escribió:
Yes, there is a long standing issue with the translations of the .po files that carry not really good copyright information most of the times.
Let's see a sample header like ar/messages/kdegraphics/okular_mobi.po
# Copyright (C) YEAR This_file_is_part_of_KDE # This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package. # Zayed Al-Saidi <some_email>, 2009. # Abdalrahim G. Fakhouri <some_other_email>, 2014.
The first one is the one you mentioned, personally i think we can just delete the first line (or change them to "For Copyright see the individual names below"), they are "worthless/wrong" and if people use the "right" tools for translation their copyright is added after those lines, i.e. lines 3 and 4.
The problem with this kind of copyright assignment is that it's not machine readable (a line with a name is very hard to distinguish from a piece of text), and tools like decopy, licensecheck, scancode, etc will simply ignore the list of authors. So, if you are going to change this format, please consider adding a "Copyright: " to the list of authors, then this would become:
# Copyright: Zayed Al-Saidi <some_email>, 2009. # Copyright: Abdalrahim G. Fakhouri <some_other_email>, 2014. Which is easily detectable by any of the mentioned tools.
The second line is also wrong, what is "PACKAGE"? In my opinion now that we ship the translations as part of the application tarballs themselves it's clear-ish that unless otherwise stated in the file, the files are under the copyright stated in the COPYING file so we may as well delete those lines too.
Opinions?
I agree that deleting the second line and "inheriting" the license from a LICENSE or COPYING file is clearer than what's currently being shipped. And from my part I would welcome such a change.
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