Bruce Perens <[email protected]> writes: > Internationalization files are derivative works if they > internationalize strings that were created by someone else. And if > those strings were part of an original GPL work there is potentially a > license violation. But if they were created by the same author as the > GPL program they are not derivative of anything. It's also going to be > difficult to argue convincingly to a court that they must be under a > license that is compatible with the rest of the program, they are > arguably input to the program.
I'm not so sure about the last part as it heavily depends on the particular implementation. For gettext-style translations you are probably right, as you can remove the translation files and still have a working program. If *all* languages are equally stored in a separate file, then removing this file will stop the program from working. So the question is: How is this one in Geogebra? Anyway, the potentially infringing copy has been created by an Austrian organization and is hosted in Germany; U.S. case law is probably not too relevant here. Hendrik __ This is the maintainer address of Debian's Java team <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers>. Please use [email protected] for discussions and questions.
