Re: [IPCop-devel] Re: [IPCop-user] German translation offer

[Mark W. <ma...@wo...>]

Dirk

> 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.
Please do ;-)
We have at least added some strings to the de.pl, so it needs to be 
checked anyway.
 
> 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.

I agree with you here.  We removed the help files after request from SW.  
They contain no explicit copyright statement and are distributed as a part 
of SW GPL.  However, the lack of a copyright and licensing statement made 
us unsure of the legal position of those docs, and we removed it.

Kind regards,


	Mark Wormgoor
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