BSD licence

[Benno Schulenberg]

Bruno Patri wrote:
> On Friday 04 July 2008 17:19:56 Danilo Šegan wrote:
> > Ok, public domain == not copyrighted, and it's all already
> > published on translationproject.org.  Nobody needs a license to
> > use public domain stuff.

To be clear: files at the TP are not public domain.  Most are 
covered by the GPL, a few by a BSD-like licence.

> That's right, but it seems that all .po files avaible on TP have
> a copyright header...

Correct.  Many files at the TP contain a copyright line like this:

  # Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This means the FSF owns the copyright on the msgids.  That this 
copyright covers only the msgids is made more clear in the files 
for which the FSF is not the copyright owner, as for e2fsprogs:

  # Copyright (C) 2008 Theodore Tso (msgids)

For all PO files it are the translators themselves who own the 
copyright on the msgstrs.  In order to distinguish the author lines 
from the main copyright line, they do not contain the "Copyright 
(C)" string.  But they have the same meaning.  For example:

  # Benno Schulenberg <benno (@) vertaalt.nl>, 2008.

Benno