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

Am Sonntag, 22. Juli 2007 10:05 schrieb Junio C Hamano:

"Shawn O. Pearce" [off-list ref] writes:

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Christian Stimming [off-list ref] wrote:

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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.

So Linus does not have to have anything to do with the German part, 
but I think the appropriate name to place there is yours.

s/yours/his/ ? Otherwise this sentence sounds like a contradiction to the 
previous one...

Christian