Re: updating translations in preparation...

[Benno Schulenberg]

Julian Foad wrote:
> Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > On
> > http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/registry.cgi?domain=gre
> >p there are several more translations available than what grep's
> > CVS repository contains.  The attached file lists all of them.
>
> Thanks for pointing these out.  I'm going through them to see
> which are worth having.  (Some are not.)

Which are not worth having?  For what reason?

> * The site says "This project (grep) requires FSF copyright
> assignments from the authors." 

Ah, yes, I'd forgotten about that.

> I need to check whether it is really necessary,

Yes it is, the FSF is very strict about this.  The copyright 
assignment doesn't have to be specifically for grep, though: it is 
enough if the author of a grep translation has signed a copyright 
assignment for any translation.

>  I don't know if I can do that myself,

If the indications on http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/ about disclaimers 
are authorative, then yes, you can check that yourself.

Taking just the first (af), 
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/registry.cgi?team=af shows 
that Petri Jooste is the author of the grep translation (it's 
inside the po file), and he has signed a disclaimer.  So this one 
can be included.  I'll check all the others as well.

> * The translations are based on grep v2.5.1a; we ought to post a
> release candidate for the current code and see if we get some
> more up-to-date translations.

Yes, but that should come after importing the currently available 
translations first: it saves the translators the hassle of having 
to merge their current translations into the new pos, the 'make 
dist' will do that for them.

Benno