On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 05:42:24PM +0200, Johannes Schmid wrote: > I am not entirely sure if we set up a formal GNOME policy at least I > couldn't find something in the wiki. > > But AFAIK this discussion came up from time to time and it is right that > you must NOT translate legal notices because the software is licensed > with the exact wording and not in any translation. > > Usually the legal notice (usually GPLv2 or v3) shouldn't be marked for > translation.
Does it mean that the following shouldn't be marked for translation? #: ../src/brasero-app.c:1153 msgid "" "Brasero is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the " "terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software " "Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later " "version." msgstr "" #: ../src/brasero-app.c:1158 msgid "" "Brasero is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY " "WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS " "FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more " "details." msgstr "" #: ../src/brasero-app.c:1163 msgid "" "You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with " "Brasero; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin " "Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA" msgstr "" If the above shouldn't be translated then we probably need to document it somewhere and advise the developers to not to mark those messages for translation. > > There are several sources of translations for different licenses and > it's ok to point to those for your personal information but they are not > and will never replace the original license text. > > Regards, > Johannes > > Am Mittwoch, den 28.04.2010, 19:23 +0700 schrieb Andika Triwidada: > > Hi, > > > > I read something we (Indonesian translators) have been done differently than > > this rule for GNOME: > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/FAQ#Should_I_translate_legal_notices.3F > > > > "Should I translate legal notices? > > > > No. You must never do that. The exact wording of the legal notices is > > very important and a translation not approved by lawyers is very > > risky. Red Hat is the legal representative and primary sponsor of the > > Fedora Project and does not have the resources to cross check every > > single translation. Just leave the original English notice in tact > > when it covers legal matters." > > > > What is GNOME l10n's policy about this? -- +-------------------------------------------+ | Marcel Telka e-mail: mar...@telka.sk | | homepage: http://telka.sk/ | | jabber: mar...@jabber.sk | +-------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n