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dokuwiki / translate.dokuwiki.org

Web based tool to create and update translation patches for DokuWiki and DokuWiki plugins.
MIT License
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file headers are removed #49

Closed mprins closed 7 years ago

mprins commented 11 years ago

if there are any file headers, eg. a copyright notice in a comment block they are removed from the translated file.

Also if there is an existing @licence tag in the php doc it is replaced with @license GPL 2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html) irrespective of the content or formatting of the file

dom-mel commented 11 years ago

Yes the translation tool strips all comments and just keeps track of the authors.

If i remember right all DokuWiki Plugins must be gpl2 since they all use the Plugin interface of DokuWiki and DokuWiki is GPL 2 What do you think about it @splitbrain ?

splitbrain commented 11 years ago

Well, theoretically a single file could be licensed under a more permissive license. It would be cool if the tool would keep any existing comments and just modify the @author lines but I don't see that as high priority.

mprins commented 11 years ago

@dom-mel you are ignoring the fact that there is a long list of GPL compatible licenses, https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses and pulling in a dicussion on license term diffuses the issue at hand. However, since you are going there, I would like to point out that removing a copyright notice may actually be illegal.

dom-mel commented 11 years ago

i'll think i try to preserve all comments and just replace the @author entries. Thanks for your input :-)