¡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.
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