Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] po/hu.po: Hungarian translation for the GTK+ interface

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:

> Il 07/05/2013 10:26, Laszlo Ersek ha scritto:
>> I suspected that something like this was in the background, but what I
>> didn't understand was: why single out the public domain, as the GPL
>> itself is in the exact same bucket, generally speaking.
>
> I think because public domain is a concept that _does_ exist in these
> countries, but it is just the set of works that satisfy certain
> conditions (e.g. 70 years passed from the author's death) rather than
> something you can put your work in.
>
> At some point you have to make some assumptions, and "the GPL works" is
> one of them.

BTW, xgettext is stupid and very difficult to make not put this in
here.  I still need to find some time to work that out.  There's an
option that lets you say, "copyrighted by so-and-so" but that's not what
we need.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Paolo