Bug#207266: Forward: Bug#207266: libc6: Norwegian translation confuses free-as-in-freedom and free-as-in-beer.
At Wed, 27 Aug 2003 14:03:45 +0200 (MEST),
Jacob Hallen wrote:
> The reporter is absolutely correct. "gratis" means for no money.
> "Fri" means with no strings attached.
Thanks for your comment. I forward your comment to Eivind.
GNU translation team has responsiblity for all translation messages.
He should be one of Norweigian translation team. So we need to
request to Eivind for fixing this message.
Regards,
-- gotom
> Jacob Hallén
> Swedish, but is fluent in Norweigain.
>
> In article <oZDD.3Mn.5@gated-at.bofh.it> you write:
> >-=-=-=-=-=-
> >
> >Dear Eivind,
> >
> >I'm one of packager in debian project glibc package. Recently I got
> >the attached report. Could you judge this suggestion? I don't know
> >Norwegian language, so I can't understand what this means.
> >
> >Best regards,
> >-- gotom
> >
> >
> >-=-=-=-=-=-
> >
> >Package: libc6
> >Version: 2.3.2-3
> >Severity: normal
> >
> > gs234@belldandy:~$ iconv --version
> > iconv (GNU libc) 2.3.2
> > Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > Dette er gratis programvare. Se kildekoden for kopieringsbetingelser.
> > Programvaren har ingen garanti, ikke en gang for SALGBARHET eller EGNETHET
> > TIL NOEN SPESIELL OPPGAVE.
> > Skrevet av Ulrich Drepper.
> >
> >The word 'gratis' means 'free of charge'. A more correct translation
> >would use the word 'fri', viz. 'Dette er fri programvare.'
> >
> >-- System Information:
> >Debian Release: testing/unstable
> >Architecture: i386
> >Kernel: Linux belldandy 2.4.21ll #1 tor aug 14 03:30:14 BST 2003 i686
> >Locale: LANG=no_NO.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=no_NO.ISO-8859-1
> >
> >Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
> >ii libdb1-compat 2.1.3-7 The Berkeley database routines [gl
> >
> >-- no debconf information
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> >-=-=-=-=-=-
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