On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 06:29:37PM +0200, Johannes Schmid wrote: > Hi! > > Am Mittwoch, den 28.04.2010, 23:01 +0700 schrieb Andika Triwidada: > > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Johannes Schmid <j...@jsschmid.de> wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > 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. > > > > Umm, maybe I misunderstood what legal notice means. > > > > For instance, is this legal a notice? > > http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-packagekit/tree/po/id.po#n1017 > > OK, just to be clear: The GPL requires you to include the legal notice > (in it's original form) to your program. So by translating it you are > violating the GPL (giving that you see the translated program as > "derived work").[1]
It is the question whether the transled program is a derived work. The translation in most cases comes as a integral part of the program source distribution... IANAL. Just my €0.02. -- +-------------------------------------------+ | 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