[Scummvm-devel] Translations of the About text in ScummVM

[Johannes Schickel]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Thierry Crozat <criezy at scummvm.org> wrote:
> 3) The GPL notice:
> It is not translated currently. I don't know what is the legal implication of this notice and if we can replace the english notice with a translated one. On the gnu.org website the translated FAQ page has this notice in english which each sentenced followed by "Traduction:" (which means "translation" in French) and its french translation. The Italian page only has the notice in english and don't even translated it to Italian.
>
> One possibility would be to always display the english sentence and if a translation is available add the translation after the english sentence. Or we could decide to replace the english notice with the translated one altogether.
>

I think we should definitly keep the GPL notice as is. The GNU project
also is not "supporting" translations,
see:http://www.gnu.org/licenses/translations.html So if we use a
translated version we should mark it as unofficial.

>
> Personally I get the feeling the best would be to add translations for selected credits titles and all non-empty descriptions and paragraphs, and add translation of the GPL notice in addition to the english notice.
>

Personally I rather for leaving the credits untranslated. Otherwise we
might end up with missing/inconsistent (depending whether the English
string would be used then or not) contribution descriptions in case
they are updated.

// Johannes