Re: unifying copyright entries (was: [RFC] General terminologychange)

[Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>]

Am Sam, 2002-11-30 um 14.18 schrieb Christian Neumair:
> Am Son, 2002-09-22 um 23.11 schrieb Christian Rose:
> > sön 2002-09-22 klockan 15.24 skrev Rhys Jones:
> > > > I seem to recall that (C) holds no legal meaning, the copyright symbol
> > > > however does. Or something like that. It was a long time ago.
> > > 
> > > Hi Gareth :) This *may* be what you're looking for:
> > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/1995May/0080.html
> > 
> > According to the discussion in
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45297, US Code Title 17
> > Section 401 doesn't mention "(C)". It just mentions "©", "Copyright",
> > and "Copr." as valid expressions for copyright, so it may still be that
> > "©" is preferrable to "(C)" even in the US.
> > The laws of other countries might not recognize the term "Copyright" at
> > all (http://www.benedict.com/info/notice/notice.asp), so it seems a
> > proper "©" must be present.
> > 
> > This of course applies to the rest of the translations as well and not
> > just the po file header -- I always "translate" all references to "(C)"
> > in a msgid to a proper "©" in the corresponding msgstr.
> 
> OK, a few months later the situation didn't improve. Here comes my
> proposal:
> (C) <year of first published code>-<year of last code update> <author>,
> e.g.
> (C) 2001-2002 Red Hat, Inc.
> (C) 1998-2001 whoever
> btw.: Do we refer to the FSF as The Free Software Foundation, Free
> Software Foundation or the Free Software Foundation?
> I'd like to commit those changes as soon as possible because I guess
> this mess confuses many translators and it isn't very useful to have
> more than one string for exactly the same copyright entry.

I Changed all copyright strings in gnome-panel to

(C) first-year-of-publication author

as some pages on the net say that you ought to specify just the first
year in which code was published. 
We refer to the FSF as suggested by Karl (Free Software Foundation,
Inc.).

regs,
 Chris

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