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Re: [PATCH/RFC 00/17] Begin gettextizing Git

From
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 31, 2010, 12:43 UTC
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On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:02, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:

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> Ęvar Arnfjörš Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I've used Launchpad somewhat for translating and it's friendly to
>> contributors & has an active community, but it seems to require that
>> we BSD-license our translations[1], which would be a showstopper since
>> we'd have to contact everyone who's been submitting GPL-2-only strings
>> to Git for the last 5 years.
>
> I don't think so:
>
> ,----[ https://help.launchpad.net/Translations/LicensingFAQ ]
> | I have no problem with BSD myself, but I also uploaded translations
> | from upstream. What do I do?
> |
> | As long as the uploads were marked as translations that were published
> | elsewhere, they fall under a separate copyright regime: those imports
> | will retain their original copyright license. The BSD licence only
> | applies to translations that are (as far as the system knows) original
> | to Launchpad.
> `----
>
> So, my understanding is: Git's code, and strings, would remain what
> they are, but things contributed _through launchpad_ would be BSD.

Ah yes. It seems as if Git's strings and derived works would be marked GPL-2. That sounds good. Like I said I hadn't looked in any of this in detail, or the legal issues involved.

Anyway, the main issue with Launchpad that I've had as a user/translator is getting translations back out of the system. To download a *.po file you have to log in and submit a request for a *.po file download. Sometimes it can take hours for you to get a mail back.

Downloading a large amount of translations through this system in Launchpad would be very painful. But maybe they have a better API now that we could use.

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Message 53 of 55 in “Begin gettextizing Git”
  1. 00/17 Begin gettextizing GitÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 30, 2010
  2. 01/17 Makefile: A variable for options used by xgettext(1) callsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 30, 2010
  3. Jonathan NiederAug 31, 2010
  4. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 31, 2010
  5. 02/17 Makefile: provide a --msgid-bugs-address to xgettext(1)Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 30, 2010
  6. 03/17 Makefile: tell xgettext(1) that our source is in UTF-8Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 30, 2010
  7. 04/17 builtin.h: Include gettext.hÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 30, 2010
  8. 05/17 gettext: make the simple parts of git-init localizableÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 30, 2010
  9. Jonathan NiederAug 31, 2010
  10. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 31, 2010
  11. Jonathan NiederAug 31, 2010
  12. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 31, 2010
  13. Jonathan NiederAug 31, 2010
  14. Junio C HamanoAug 31, 2010
  15. 06/17 gettext: localize the main git-init messageÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 30, 2010
  16. Jonathan NiederAug 31, 2010
  17. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 31, 2010
  18. Jonathan NiederAug 31, 2010
  19. 07/17 gettext.c: work around us not using setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "")Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 30, 2010
  20. Jonathan NiederAug 31, 2010
  21. Marcin CieslakAug 31, 2010
  22. Jonathan NiederAug 31, 2010
  23. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 31, 2010
  24. Jonathan NiederAug 31, 2010
  25. Erik Faye-LundAug 31, 2010
  26. 08/17 gettext tests: test if $VERSION exists before using itÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 30, 2010
  27. 09/17 gettext tests: update test/is.po to match t/t0200/test.cÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 30, 2010
  28. 10/17 gettext tests: add detection for is_IS.ISO-8859-1 localeÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 30, 2010
  29. 11/17 gettext tests: test message re-encoding under ShellÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 30, 2010
  30. 12/17 gettext tests: test re-encoding with a UTF-8 msgid under ShellÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 30, 2010
  31. 13/17 gettext tests: mark a test message as not needing translationÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 30, 2010
  32. 14/17 po/is.po: msgmerge and add Language: headerÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 30, 2010
  33. 15/17 po/is.po: add Icelandic translationÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 30, 2010
  34. Jonathan NiederAug 31, 2010
  35. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 31, 2010
  36. Erik Faye-LundAug 31, 2010
  37. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 31, 2010
  38. Erik Faye-LundAug 31, 2010
  39. 16/17 po/pl.po: add Polish translationÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 30, 2010
  40. 17/17 gettext tests: test message re-encoding under CÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 30, 2010
  41. Junio C HamanoAug 30, 2010
  42. gettext: Make NO_GETTEXT=YesPlease the default in releasesÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 31, 2010
  43. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 31, 2010
  44. Jonathan NiederAug 31, 2010
  45. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 31, 2010
  46. Jonathan NiederAug 31, 2010
  47. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 31, 2010
  48. Jonathan NiederAug 31, 2010
  49. Peter KreftingAug 31, 2010
  50. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 31, 2010
  51. Peter KreftingAug 31, 2010
  52. Matthieu MoyAug 31, 2010
  53. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 31, 2010
  54. Jonathan NiederAug 31, 2010
  55. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 31, 2010

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