Re: Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo (yo, ha, ig) po files

2009-01-14 Thread Marcel Telka
Hi Thomas, On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:57:14AM -0500, Thomas Thurman wrote: Ysgrifennodd Marcel Telka: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 09:43:51PM -0500, Thomas Thurman wrote: Maybe in future we need to make the gettext tools enforce a rule that the header block of a .po file contains licence

Re: Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo (yo, ha, ig) po files

2009-01-13 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Andre Klapper wrote: This is about http://www.gnome.org/~tthurman/yo-ha-ig/ . These are .po files extracted from a Nigerian distro called Wazobia Linux. Several KDE and GNOME applications were translated into the three languages in the subject line, a user has found a disk image,

Re: Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo (yo, ha, ig) po files

2009-01-13 Thread Luis Villa
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, Andre Klapper wrote: This is about http://www.gnome.org/~tthurman/yo-ha-ig/ . These are .po files extracted from a Nigerian distro called Wazobia Linux. Several KDE and GNOME applications were translated into the three

Re: Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo (yo, ha, ig) po files

2009-01-13 Thread Marcel Telka
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 09:43:51PM -0500, Thomas Thurman wrote: Maybe in future we need to make the gettext tools enforce a rule that the header block of a .po file contains licence information, instead of assuming it's okay to leave it in the comments. Then we should also enforce compiler

Re: Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo (yo, ha, ig) po files

2009-01-13 Thread Thomas Thurman
Ysgrifennodd Marcel Telka: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 09:43:51PM -0500, Thomas Thurman wrote: Maybe in future we need to make the gettext tools enforce a rule that the header block of a .po file contains licence information, instead of assuming it's okay to leave it in the comments. Then we

Re: Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo (yo, ha, ig) po files

2009-01-13 Thread James Vasile
Luis Villa wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, Andre Klapper wrote: This is about http://www.gnome.org/~tthurman/yo-ha-ig/ . These are .po files extracted from a Nigerian distro called Wazobia Linux. Several KDE and GNOME applications were translated

Re: Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo (yo, ha, ig) po files

2009-01-12 Thread Andre Klapper
CC'ing kde-i18n-doc@ and GNOME's legal-l...@. Everybody please take a second to think before hitting the Reply to all button. Thanks. :-P Start of this thread: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2008-December/msg00071.html ** QUICK SUMMARY: ** This is about

Re: Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo (yo, ha, ig) po files

2009-01-12 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net wrote: So to me it boils down to the question: Can we just take the .po files without asking anybody? and (like Johannes wrote earlier) if a translation can be considered a derived work. The translations are probably derived work

Re: Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo (yo, ha, ig) po files

2009-01-12 Thread Thomas Thurman
Ysgrifennodd Roozbeh Pournader: It all boils down to if the actual software itself (Wazobia Linux, and its parts) was released under an (L)GPL(-compatible) license or not. http://wazobialinux.com/software_philosoph.html and http://wazobialinux.com/software_developer.html claim it was released

Re: Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo (yo, ha, ig) po files

2009-01-12 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Thomas Thurman tthur...@gnome.org wrote: Should I go and find the person who sent me the .mo files and ask them for the iso and look somewhere on it for the licence, and if so, any idea where? I don't fancy booting off some random iso off the net just to see

Re: Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo (yo, ha, ig) po files

2009-01-12 Thread Thomas Thurman
Ysgrifennodd Roozbeh Pournader: License screens don't really matter. The actual license files on the disc do (or so I believe). So, mounting the ISO and dissecting it may be sufficient. No need to boot from it. Thanks. The ISO seems to have vanished, but there's a 480Mb disk image here,

Re: Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo (yo, ha, ig) po files

2009-01-12 Thread Luis Villa
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Thomas Thurman tthur...@gnome.org wrote: Ysgrifennodd Roozbeh Pournader: License screens don't really matter. The actual license files on the disc do (or so I believe). So, mounting the ISO and dissecting it may be sufficient. No need to boot from it. Thanks.

Re: Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo (yo, ha, ig) po files

2009-01-12 Thread Thomas Thurman
Ysgrifennodd Luis Villa: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Thomas Thurman tthur...@gnome.org wrote: Thanks. The ISO seems to have vanished, but there's a 480Mb disk image here, which seems to be where the .mo files came from: http://wazobialinux.com/downloads/wlce.hda.img.21.09.2006 Could

Re: Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo (yo, ha, ig) po files

2009-01-12 Thread Luis Villa
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Thomas Thurman tthur...@gnome.org wrote: Ysgrifennodd Luis Villa: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Thomas Thurman tthur...@gnome.org wrote: Thanks. The ISO seems to have vanished, but there's a 480Mb disk image here, which seems to be where the .mo files