[PD] call for translations for new Pd GUI

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Aug 20, 2009, at 11:38 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> Just to make sure there is a perfectly clean copyright status on  
>> these files, I removed anything with an unclear copyright, and  
>> generated some new locales based on public domain files.
>
> I don't think there's any real problem with you using translations  
> from DesireData, if only you honour the names of the translators.
>
> It depends on your ambitions though. If you decide to limit yourself  
> to words that are the same in any software, then it doesn't matter,  
> but if you want translation for Pd-specific things, then it would  
> make sense to make use of DesireData's translations. There's a  
> difference between translating 50 words and translating 500 phrases.  
> What I made the translators do, is to translate 500 phrases.


Exactly!  We need real translations like the ones that Federico and  
Ben did, what I've put up are just placeholders.  Plus it is fun to  
see Hindi, Gujarati, etc. in Pd.  The copyright should be clear so we  
don't have to deal with it later.

.hc

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