Re: [PATCH 3/5] Internationalization of git-gui

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Christian Stimming wrote:

> Am Sonntag, 22. Juli 2007 10:05 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> > "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> > > Christian Stimming <stimming@tuhh.de> wrote:
> > >> Subject: [PATCH] Initial German translation for testing of i18n.
> > >> diff --git a/po/de.po b/po/de.po
> > >> new file mode 100644
> > >> index 0000000..0592836
> > >> --- /dev/null
> > >> +++ b/po/de.po
> > >> @@ -0,0 +1,265 @@
> > >> +# Translation of git-gui to German.
> > >> +# Copyright (C) 2007 Linux Torvalds
> > >
> > > I didn't realize Linus wrote German.  ;-)
> > >
> > > Or are you assigning the copyright to Linus, much as other chunks
> > > of Git are copyrighted by Linus?
> >
> > The convention for xx.po, judging from the way template pot file
> > is written out, is to name the package's copyright holder, not
> > translation's, on that line.  
> 
> Exactly. That line should say that even though I have been the author of 
> de.po, I still assign copyright (or the assign-able parts of it) to the 
> package's copyright owner, which in this case is Linus. As Junio says, 
> this is a suggestion from gettext, and I'd simply follow it here.

How about Junio instead?  Linus created Git, but Junio is the official 
maintainer (by mutual agreement).

Ciao,
Dscho