Bug#532842: Copyright problem in console-setup [was: Bug#532842: console-setup: [INTL:de] updated German debconf translation]
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 06:34:41AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> >
> > Please re-add Matthias and me to the copyright holders. I can't say
much about the others. Also I would appreciate if not only the names
could be listed, but the reason given as well, i.e. that they added to
the translation.
>
> That cannot be done on console-setup translation as the PO file is now
generated from the big D-I translation file.
>
> So, adding this credit should be done by the person maintaining de.po
for D-I, namely Jens. He should do this in the master files of D-I.
Yes, there are technical reasons for the change but I don't think this
change is legaly allowed. For example according to the Bulgarian law
credits of the authors can not be removed even in the extreme case - when
the author transfers the whole copyright. And no law in the world would
permit SPI to be pointed as copiright holder of the work of Helge,
Matthias and the other translators without their explicit (not implicit)
permission.
So basicly there are only two options:
1. To find some technical solution that acknowledges that Matthias, Helge
and the other translators are copyright holders of their work
2. To initiate a new translation from scratch, abandoning all current
translations of console-setup.
Anton Zinoviev
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