On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 18:39 +0800, James Henstridge wrote: > On 19/06/06, Paolo Maggi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I was giving a look to bug #330868 (Adding "License" button and > > dialog > > to About dialog). It seems to me we are duplicating the same long > > strings (mostly the GPL license) in most applications marking them for > > translation in order to add a "License" button to the about dialog. > > If you intend to present localised license text, please provide a way > to turn it off (and probably turn it off by default ...). > > Translations can introduce ambiguities or change the meaning of a > text, which is not acceptable in the case of a legal document. My > agreement to license my code under the GPL does not imply my agreement > to license it under a random translation of the GPL, so it shouldn't > be presented as such to the user.
I don't want to show in the License dialog the entire license text but only the good old "This program is free software... [snip]....You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program..." snippet. I agree with you translations of license text could be problematic. But I don't think this is the case since the text only says which is the license and where to find it. Ciao, Paolo _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
