Re: Translating keyboard layout data

[Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>]

Am Fr, den 14.11.2003 schrieb Jody Goldberg um 18:19:
> As we work to merge gswitchit into gnome-control-center several
> issues have come up relating to translations.  There is a file
> 
>     xfree86.xml
> 
> which contains a list of the available layouts and their translated
> names.  It is included as part of Xfree86 4.3.x.  The content will
> be displayed in the keyboard capplet, and there are a few reasons that
> I'd like to see it included and translated by GNOME
> 
>     - It is not installed by earlier versions of Xfree86, nor is it
>       available for all X variants.  Hence people running older X
>       servers (debian) or on other platforms (*nix) will not be able
>       to use the new functionality.  So I've requested that we
>       install a copy as a fallback.
> 
>     - The file is only translated into a few languages right now,
>       which means that the host of unsupported languages will have
>       untranslated strings in the gnome keyboard capplet.
> 
> The questions that have come up are
> 
>     - What license applies to translations ?  The main upstream
>       source for this file is on the x servers.  We'd be feeding
>       your translations back there as patches.  Can we have
>       translations for something using the X license done in the
>       GPLed control-center ?
> 
>     - Would it be easier for translators if we put the file in its
>       own module, or if it was included in an existing set of
>       POTFILES such as gnome-control-center ?
I've come to the following conclusion:
We need to separate it out somehow AND make sure that it's included in
control-center (a new module for just one file is overhead, right?).
Solution:
- Add a new po directory to the gnome-control-center CVS module
(po-keyboard)
- Explicitly license the file xfree86.xml.in and the generated
xfree86.xml file under GPL as well as under the X11 license. We have to
beg all authors to permit GPL relicensing 
- Tell translators through a po-keyboard/README file that their work
will be used under the X11 license terms, too
- Add a new module to the status pages (gnome-keyboard)
I could easily do all of that - if you want me two.
Comments, suggestions?

regs,
 Chris