Re: Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo (yo, ha, ig) Licensing

[James Vasile <vasile softwarefreedom org>]

I'd say this clears up the licensing concerns.  It's good to see people 
taking licensing seriously and doing the homework necessary to make sure 
GNOME's code is clean.

Chris Murphy wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion to look for a LICENSE field - not really 
> familiar with RPMs and I didn't think to look for that.  Good news!  All 
> four packages (3 translations and then locales-ng) are listed as GPL in 
> the RPM.  I've uploaded the results of:
>
> rpm -qi $packagename
>
> for each package to 
> http://chrismurf.com/nigerian-translations/license-info.txt, but the 
> punchline is that all of them are listed as GPL in their respective 
> packages. 
>
> Hooray for metadata.
>
> Best,
>   Chris
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Luis Villa <luis tieguy org 
> <mailto:luis tieguy org>> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Chris Murphy <chrismurf gmail com
>     <mailto:chrismurf gmail com>> wrote:
>      > And for good measure I grabbed the files from the
>     translations-[ha,ig,yo]
>      > packages and tarred them up.  Everything is available from the
>     folder:
>      > http://chrismurf.com/nigerian-translations/, including the files I
>      > referenced earlier.  Apologies for not consolidating emails.
>
>     Thanks for looking into this, Chris. Couple questions:
>
>     (1) Chris, if you've got a system running, can you rpm query the
>     LICENSE field for the locales-ng package? (I'm afraid I don't remember
>     the exact syntax for that off the top of my head, sorry.)
>
>     (2) Chris, you mentioned there is "licensing information at the top"
>     of locales-ng.tgz, but I don't see it anywhere. Could you point out
>     exactly where it is/was?
>
>     (3) I notice that /usr/share/i18n/locales/ha_NG mentions a
>     paolo mandriva com- has anyone tried to contact Paolo (and/or
>     mandriva) to see if they know about this translation work? Or is that
>     just copied/pasted from somewhere else?
>
>     Generally, James Vasile and Aaron Williamson (of Software Freedom Law
>     Center) and I discussed this briefly today on the phone so we're
>     paying attention to the issue and hope we can give some more
>     definitive advice shortly. Obviously more definitive information (like
>     contacting the Wazobia folks directly, or finding a license file like
>     the one Chris suggests is present) would speed that up, or even
>     better, make it a non-issue :)
>
>     Luis
>
>
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