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

Am Sonntag, 22. Juli 2007 14:44 schrieb Johannes Schindelin:

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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

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+# 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).

Then the copyright line should probably better read

Copyright (C) 2007 Shawn Pearce, et al.

because that's what the copyright for the other git-gui files say.

Christian