El dissabte, 21 de juliol de 2018, a les 14:40:39 CEST, Maximiliano Curia va escriure: > ¡Hola Albert! > > El 2018-07-19 a las 18:54 +0200, Albert Astals Cid escribió: > >>> 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. > > > That's not possible, the Copyright line gets added by third party tools we > > do not control, and even if we updated Lokalize (the tool "most" of our > > translators use) *today*, it wouldn't get to them until years later thanks > > to how distribution of applications in Linux works at this time. > > Alright, what about: > > # This file is copyright: > # Zayed Al-Saidi <some_email>, 2009. > # Abdalrahim G. Fakhouri <some_other_email>, 2014. > > this would only mean changing the proposed "For Copyright see the individual > names below" to a string that is already supported by automatic copyright > parsers.
This should be doable, i'll bring it to discussion with the wider community but i don't expect any disagreement. Cheers, Albert > > Happy hacking, >
