From: Dirk L. <dl...@un...> - 2002-03-28 20:22:01
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Hi, as already said, I helped Till and Birte translate SmoothWall v0.9.8 into German. More specifically, I translated the files german.c (used by the installer) and de.pl (for the webbased admin) and about the first half of config_de.html (for the online helpfile). Till and Birte did the second half of config_de.html and we all helped each other proofread our translations. The original english texts of both german.c and de.pl were licensed under the GNU GPL by Lawrence Manning. So the translated (i.e. modified) files are covered under the GNU GPL as well and as such can be used and further modified by the IPCop project. I'll happily send copies to Mark and Ludwig if they don't have them yet. The original english text of config_de.html was written by Richard Morrell and Lawrence Manning. In this case, they made no explicit statement what was allowed to do with the text. By including the translated version into the SmoothWall distribution they probably have implicitly allowed the translation. And Ludwig probably is right that a translation is copyrighted to the translator (Germans, see §3 UrhG). But I am no lawyer and I would definitely follow Ludwig's and Mark's advice and stay away from files that are not covered by the GNU GPL in order to avoid any further copyright problems. Regards, Dirk -- Dirk Loss: dl...@un..., http://www.dirk-loss.de/ |