On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 13:11 +0200, Danilo Šegan wrote: Hi Danilo, thanks for your reply. W.r.t translation teams. Conflicts of opinion don't seem to have been a problem so far. Mostly it has been new translations / completion of old unmaintained translations which have been provided through launchpad. [snip] > Also, there's an easier way for you to do a merge: just upload PO files > from your source code into Launchpad as 'published uploads'. Launchpad > will 'merge' both translations, though it will give preference to those > done in Launchpad (you can easily find and revert to those from uploaded > PO files by using 'changed in LP' filter and 'Packaged:' suggestions). > > Then just export them back, and you'll have merged translations. Ok, I thought "published uploads" would overwrite existing translations, hence I thought it was necessary to export the translations and manually merge before re-uploading. BTW.. how doesn't this clobber the licensing of strings? Surely upstream uploads are all marked as GPL? Is there metadata in the .po files tracking the source of the translations? Or, does launchpad choose to declare a translation as BSD licensed, launchpad contributed, if it finds the same string / translation in the upstream upload and already in Launchpad as BSD? If that were the case, I guess over time, strings which are accidentally the same in both end up being migrated to BSD licensed equivelants from launchpad. Lets say we do the merging. We then export the translations and check the resulting merged translations back into our repository. How do we declare the licensing of those files? Unless I really misunderstood something, saying BSD & GPL are compatible does not mean I can take BSD licensed software / translations, and then license it under GPL. " * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: * * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. " -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)
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