[translations] Copyright?

[Mori Sugimoto]

Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
> larry at garfieldtech.com schrieb:
> > Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
>
> >>> Drupal's CVS policy is to not state a copyright or authorship on
> >>> anything, since most code gets so many people working on it that
> >>> separating out who did what is infeasible.  Commit messages should
> >>> specify credit.  Therefore, po files in CVS should follow the same
> >>> convention as code: Don't specify an author or a copyright or a
> license
> >>> in the file itself and let the packaging system add a LICENSE.txt file
> >>> as appropriate.
> >> While I agree, this is a bit impractical. The copyright notices in the
> >> PO files are usually added by the PO translator software. While it is
> >> possible to remove them (man vi), most translators might not know how.
> >>
> >> In fact, our own extractor.php adds this to the header of the files:
> >>
> >>     $output  = "# LANGUAGE translation of Drupal (". $file .")\n";
> >>     $output .= "# Copyright YEAR NAME <EMAIL at ADDRESS>\n";
> >>
> >> Since they do not claim something that is not true, I suggest to ignore
> >> them.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>     Gerhard
> > Well they may become untrue over time if multiple people work on a given
> > PO file.  That's why PHP files do not carry an author identification.  I
> > do not know the usual workflow for PO files well enough to say if it is
> > a valid concern there, so will defer to Gerhard on the enforcement
> front.
>
> Thank you so much. :p
>
> I guess a good policy would be to place something like "the Drupal
> translators for foo language" in that line.
>
> Realistically I've no time to enforce this at all.
>
> But maybe Mori would like to draw up some policy that we can add to the
> translators' handbook.
That's *exactly* what I was thinking! :)

Mori
>
> Cheers,
>     Gerhard
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