Re: [PATCH] Add zh_TW Traditional Chinese translation

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 02:07:52PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 at 13:50, Peter Dave Hello <hsu@peterdavehello.org> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, April 24th, 2024 at AM 2:20, Peter Dave Hello <hsu@peterdavehello.org> wrote:
> > > Thank you for all your help; I wonder if the copyright can just
> > > belong to this project because the copyright to me personally in the
> > > open source world just to deal with somebody violets the license.
> > > Otherwise, I'm more copyleft. What do you think?
> >
> > I'm not sure if the previous mail has been dropped. I would really
> > appreciate it if anyone could give me some advice. Thanks a lot!
> 
> We can't give legal advice, but the QEMU project doesn't do
> copyright assignment. Copyright remains with the original author
> (or with their employer).

While we can't give legal advice, going back to the original question
I have an observation that may resolve this.

IIUC, the orignal question was what to put at the top of the .po file
where it has:

  # Copyright (C) 2024 THE QEMU'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER

I don't believe the QEMU community has any stated requirement that every
file have a "Copyright" line present. Entirely omitting this line is a
valid choice from QEMU's POV.

What matters to QEMU primarily is that the file has a declared *license*
statement.

Any Copyright lines present are woefully inaccurate in most places, since
they're rarely updated despite 100's of contributors working on a file.
The respective contributors still retain copyright over their own work
regardless of what a 'copyright' line says or doesn't say.

IOW, the contributor (or their employer) may decide for themselves
a policy of whether to include or omit such a "Copyright" line, on
contributions submitted.

With regards,
Daniel
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