[sugar] License your bundles, please!

Jonas Smedegaard dr
Thu Sep 11 12:12:19 EDT 2008


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On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:41:41AM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
>John Gilmore has been pushing us to get our licensing ducks in a row.
>The one remaining problem has been activities and content bundles: we
>can't legally distribute bundles that don't have a clear statement of
>license.

There is also licensing problems in some PO-files.

POT-files should replace PACKAGE with actual package name.

PO-files should include both proper copyright and licensing info.

As an example, the following has bogus copyright (and the actual 
translators do not claim copyright), and refer to bogus licensing info 
(the package "PACKAGE" does not exist):

# Greek translation of Chat Activity. 
# Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER 
# This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package. 
# Dimitris Sotiropoulos <sotiropoulosdimitris at gmail.com>, 2007. 
# Simos Xenitellis <simos at gnome.org>, 2007. 


  - Jonas

Debian Sugar package maintainer

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