Re: Translations was Re: [Gnumed-devel] Interest in GNUmed

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 04:17:56PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> On 2009-10-26, at 3:49 PM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> 
> >While technically I don't see a problem with that we've been
> >discussing licensing implications regarding the translated
> >terms without coming to a safe conclusion.
> 
> I would have a hard time arguing that the translations (single words
> or short strings of words) need to be kept GPL.
> 
> I would accept the argument that it is not the individual translated
> items (words or phrases) that is unique, but the aggregated
> collection, and recognizing that in our case the .po files are mixes
> of clinical words with technical strings – many of which would be
> functional gibberish if transplanted into some other system – I
> truly can't see a problem with the translations being BSD.

OK, sounds reasonable to me. Sometimes I don't trust my
feeling about licensing issues and thus it's good to hear
(an)other opinion(s).

I guess I'm fine with using Launchpad to facilitate
translation. I would envision something like the following
workflow:

One day I decide that I've added enough a sizable amount of
new strings to the client. I run push-po-file-to-launchpad.sh
which generates a new po file and uploads it to launchpad.

Previous to a release I go get-translations-from-launchpad.sh
which downloads what exists there, merges with what is in CVS
and commits.

So it'd be great if we could get the apparent po jam cleared
up and 

Karsten
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