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Re: [PATCH] Add zh_TW Traditional Chinese translation


From: Peter Dave Hello
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add zh_TW Traditional Chinese translation
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:45:03 +0000

On Tuesday, June 25th, 2024 at AM 1:06, Daniel P. Berrangé 
<berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> > We can't give legal advice, but the QEMU project doesn't do
> > copyright assignment. Copyright remains with the original author
> > (or with their employer).
> 
> 
> While we can't give legal advice, going back to the original question
> I have an observation that may resolve this.
> 
> IIUC, the orignal question was what to put at the top of the .po file
> where it has:
> 
> # Copyright (C) 2024 THE QEMU'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER
> 
> I don't believe the QEMU community has any stated requirement that every
> file have a "Copyright" line present. Entirely omitting this line is a
> valid choice from QEMU's POV.
> 
> What matters to QEMU primarily is that the file has a declared license
> statement.
> 
> Any Copyright lines present are woefully inaccurate in most places, since
> they're rarely updated despite 100's of contributors working on a file.
> The respective contributors still retain copyright over their own work
> regardless of what a 'copyright' line says or doesn't say.
> 
> IOW, the contributor (or their employer) may decide for themselves
> a policy of whether to include or omit such a "Copyright" line, on
> contributions submitted.

Thanks for the solution! So, to confirm, I will send PATCH v2 with the
other metadata fixes but without the "Copyright" line. Is that correct?

Best wishes,
Peter





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