Transifex.net migration may lead to loss of our copyright headers

Dimitris Glezos glezos at indifex.com
Sat Feb 19 13:20:43 UTC 2011


On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Paul Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Dimitris Glezos <glezos at indifex.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Ville-Pekka Vainio
>> <vpivaini at cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
>>> It was brought to our attention by a Mageia translator on #fedora-l10n
>>> today, that the new version of Transifex does not leave the copyright
>>> headers in po files intact.
>>
>> FYI -- We are tracking the issue on this ticket (vpv already added
>> some useful comments on it):
>>
>>  http://trac.transifex.org/ticket/675
>
> Since that ticket is more generally about the treatment of comments, I
> didn't add this issue there, but for Fedora translations, are we able
> to ensure the copyright notice reads at a minimum, "Copyright (C)
> <year> Red Hat, Inc. and others"?

Yes -- if this copyright header exists in the POT file, it will also
exist in all the PO files.

Additionally, an "AUTHORS" file can be placed in the po/ directory
listing the copyright holders.

-d


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Dimitris Glezos

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