Oh, and dropping the bogus version number from start.exe is fine, too. (Presumably inserting wine's version number would be better, if we want a version number there.)
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Dan Kegel <d...@kegel.com> wrote: > 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 >> >
