When I wrote that bit, I was simply trying to follow the letter of the LGPL. I'm ok with any solution that does that. So making the messages uniform is fine by me. - Dan
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 2:40 AM, Francois Gouget <fgou...@free.fr> wrote: > > Start has the following lines at the end of its usage message: > > "start.exe version 0.2 Copyright (C) 2003, Dan Kegel\n" > "Start comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details run with /L option.\n" > "This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it\n" > "under certain conditions; run 'start /L' for details.\n" > > And also this resource: > "start.exe version 0.2 Copyright (C) 2003, Dan Kegel\n" > "This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or\n" > "modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser Public License\n" > "as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1\n" > [...] > "along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software\n" > "Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, > USA.\n" > "\n" > "See the COPYING.LIB file for license information.\n" > > We also have another copy of this copyright notice in shell32 for the > 'About Wine' dialog but without the 'start.exe' and 'COPYING.LIB' lines, > and with 'This program' replaced with 'Wine'. > > > One more copyright notice we have is this in msrle32.rc: > > "Wine MS-RLE video codec\n" > "Copyright 2002 by Michael Guennewig" > > > Now this is all legalese which is a pain to translate (weird vocabulary) > and pretty scary too. And because of the small differences the copyright > notice needs to be translated twice (though tools like Virtaal/Launchpad > may notice the similarity and prefill a fuzzy translation). Also > start.exe and msrle32.dll are the only ones to have these notices which > seems pretty inconsistent. > > > So what can we do to make this simpler? > > The simplest would be to remove all copyright notices from start.rc and > msrle32.rc. (we would keep the ones in the source of course). I guess > that would require Dan's and Michael's approval. > > > The other options involve separating the strings that change from one > tool to the next, from those that stay the same. This way the latter > will only appear once in the PO file and thus need to be translated only > once. The various parts can then trivially be concatenated when they are > displayed. (unfortunately this does not help for the msrle32.rc case) > > > For instance we could decide to only keep the 'COPYING.LIB' string and > tack it to the end of the usage message. We could also make things more > consistent by doing this in every tool. So in pseudo-code we would have > something like this: > > /* Load the tool-specific usage message */ > usage_message = load_string(IDS_USAGE); > > /* Load the generic copying.lib reference. This one is duplicated in > * every tool but always the same. > */ > copying_reference = load_string(IDS_COPYING); > > /* Print both */ > printf(usage_message); > printf(copying_reference); > > > Another option would be to reuse the exact same main copyright notice as > in the About Wine dialog since we need to translate that anyway (I think > it would work wrapping-wise). So the start.exe pseudo-code for showing > the license would be something like this: > > /* Load the copyright notice header, that is: > * start.exe version 0.2 Copyright (C) 2003, Dan Kegel > * start.exe is part of Wine. > */ > notice_header = load_string(IDS_NOTICE_HEADER); > > /* Load the generic Wine copyright notice. Note that it > * says 'Wine' like in the 'About Wine' dialog, not 'This program' > * and would be the same in any other Wine tool: > * Wine is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > * ... > */ > notice_generic = load_string(IDS_NOTICE_GENERIC); > > /* Load the copyright notice trailer: > * > * See the COPYING.LIB file for license information. > */ > notice_trailer = load_string(IDS_NOTICE_TRAILER); > > /* Print all the parts together */ > printf(notice_header); > printf(notice_generic); > printf(notice_trailer); > > > -- > Francois Gouget <fgou...@free.fr> http://fgouget.free.fr/ > tcA thgirypoC muinelliM latigiD eht detaloiv tsuj evah uoY >
