Re: New telepathy-account-widgets module and licensing problems

[Gil Forcada <gforcada gnome org>]

El dt 20 de 08 de 2013 a les 17:54 +0100, en/na Marco Barisione va
escriure:
> Hi,
>
> Lately I have been working on centralising the management of all the IM
> accounts in gnome-control-center, see
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=696267
>
> To do so I had to move a lot of code from empathy to a new module (that
> is going to be used as a git submodule by empathy and
> gnome-online-accounts, see
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=699492
> The new module is called telepathy-account-widgets, see
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/telepathy-account-widgets/
>
> For translators this means that empathy lost a few strings and that
> telepathy-account-widgets already has lots of .po files that I copied
> from empathy.
>
> Sadly some files in empathy were under GPL, so I had to chase the
> authors and get their permission to relicense those files so that they
> could be used in telepathy-account-widgets.
> Even more sadly, this means I had to delete those translated strings
> from telepathy-account-widgets's .po files to make everything clean from
> a licensing point of view :( Luckily it's not many strings, about 20.
>
> If you are the author of the original strings, you can of course just
> copy them back from Empathy.
>
> Sorry for the mess, I hope not to cause too many problems.

Hi Marco,

Thanks for letting us know!

For the ones wondering if their language is up-to-date or the usual
always-missing-some-strings see:
https://l10n.gnome.org/module/telepathy-account-widgets/

Cheers,
Gil

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