Re: Copyright header

[Aiet Kolkhi <aietkolkhi@gmail.com>]

Hello Clytie,

I remember a huge thread on this topic in one of the distributions
(Mandrake, I think).

I think the bottom line is that one should use the copyright header
that has been agreed within the product.

--
Regards,
Aiet Kolkhi
http://www.Gakartuleba.org


On 6/6/05, Clytie Siddall <clytie@riverland.net.au> wrote:
> I have another developer query:
> 
> On 06/06/2005, at 4:44 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:
> 
> > The po file you sent includes this header:
> >
> > # Vietnamese Translation for freetds.
> > # Copyright (c) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > # Clytie Siddall <clytie@riverland.net.au>, 2005.
> >
> > Has the copyright for this translation actually been assigned to
> > the FSF?
> > If so, under what license is it being made available to Debian?
> 
> I always use that header, since it's supposed to _avoid_ all
> copyright hassles. As a Translation Project translator, I have signed
> a disclaimer giving all copyright in my OSS work to the FSF. Should I
> be using something different?
> 
> <mutters wildly and grabs another debconf file>
> 
> from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm
> Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
> 
> Clytie Siddall--Renmark, in the Riverland of South Australia
> 
> Ở thành phố Renmark, tại miền sông của Nam Úc
> 
>