From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/5666 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Call for locales maintainer & contributors Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 23:28:39 -0400 Message-ID: <20140728032839.GH4038@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <20140724193205.GA5498@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20140727032758.GT4038@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20140728031216.GA1776@newbook> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1406518142 27213 80.91.229.3 (28 Jul 2014 03:29:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 03:29:02 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-5671-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Mon Jul 28 05:28:52 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XBbcK-0000wg-Cw for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 05:28:52 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 1745 invoked by uid 550); 28 Jul 2014 03:28:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 1734 invoked from network); 28 Jul 2014 03:28:51 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140728031216.GA1776@newbook> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Original-Sender: Rich Felker Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:5666 Archived-At: On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 08:12:17PM -0700, Isaac Dunham wrote: > But most importantly: > (c): If I understand correctly, this _MANDATES_ a comment field in the .mo > format (to note copyright, modifications, etc.) I think that would probably depend on the degree and nature of data used. Basic facts (like the names of countries, currencies, day and month names, etc.) are not subject to copyright; at most, the CLDR compilation and presentation of such data would be, but I see no way this copyright could apply when the identical data could be obtained from other sources. Obviously other things like non-trivial string translations could be subject to copyright, though. Rich