[Bug 438348] License problems in po files

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Duarte "HappyGuy" Loreto changed:

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------- Comment #7 from Duarte "HappyGuy" Loreto  2007-08-26 23:56 UTC -------
Hello

I've been using for several years now the following header

# Copyright � 2006, 2007 pessulus
# This file is distributed under the same license as the pessulus package.

Differs from the above one given by Claude where it assigns copyright to the
package and not to FSF.

I believe this is the correct way to do it as we grant to the package
maintainers the possibility to relicense the package without requesting our
permission or, if we become unreachable on the specified email, forcing
maintainer to discar the translation.

On the other hand, I think that granting translation copyright to FSF is
invalid unless the translator has an agreement with FSF. As such, seems that
the only valid alternative to granting copyright to the package is to keep it
for the translator himself.

I think all this header discussion was conducted on the list some 5 years ago
but I'm not sure and not able to find it on the archives/google.

On a side note, I always convert the (c) to � as .po files are should support
UTF-8 and it's a more correct glyph to put on the header.

Am I wrong on the way I do the headers? Should we get some legal folks opinion
here?


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