Maximiliano Curia ha scritto:
¡Hola Luigi!
El 2018-07-14 a las 10:37 +0100, Chris Lamb escribió:
My interpretation of this is that the intention is to assign the copyright
to the kde project, although it's not a hundred percent clear.
I should have been clearer, sorry — I understand you are going with
whatever the file says but I am requesting that you make this clearer,
perhaps by getting a statement from upstream or similar.
"This_file_is_part_of_KDE" is really not suitable as an author,
whatever the file says, after all.
Chris raised the issue of the po files distributed by kde containing some (not
very clear) template parts, in particular the copyright assignments to
This_file_is_part_of_KDE.
I'm not sure that's a copyright assignment. Usually we have the FLA for that:
https://ev.kde.org/rules/fla.php
I suspect that it was a replacement of the standard copyright assignation to
the FSF which was there in the early days but it really did not fit.
I tracked it back to this change, from 2006 (the string was later changed to
used underscores instead of spaces):
https://websvn.kde.org/?view=revision&revision=505466
The message is probably incorrect (without copyright is all reserved, not
public domain) but it has been like that for a while.
I'm not sure I'm allowed to decide if it's a copyright assignment or not. I'm
probably going to ask the board of the KDE e.V., as it is a legal question.
I added Albert Astal Cid, who is and has been in charge of in the i18n team
more than me, he was part of the board in the past, and maybe we can discuss
what to do.
With your kde i18n team hat on, would you consider it feasible to replace
these strings with something clearer?
If the intention is for the translators to assign the copyright to kde it
should be assigned to KDE.e.V, if the intention is for each translator to keep
the copyright assignment the This_file_is_part_of_KDE part of the template
needs to be updated to say AUTHOR <EMAIL>.
The first case should be "scriptable" the second case, would need to manually
modifying each po file that contains the "This_file_is_part_of_KDE" text.
As I said, I don't think it's the first case, but I can ask to the e.V.
If it's going to be the second case, I don't think that's practical when the
list of authors is still in the file. Shouldn't a string like
Copyright (C) the respective authors (see below)
work? Or something more legally fitting.
Finally, a request: please lower the severity of this bug. It's not a
regression, and I would assume good faith on something that has been the same
for the past 10+ years, without having a "serious" bug in the middle.
Ciao
--
Luigi
