Distributing translation

In order to be usefull translation needs to be distributed to end users.

There are basically two possible ways to this.

Distribute translation by yourself.

This has several practical problems.

Incorporate translation to standard GOWrite

Widest distribution for translations is obtained by incorporating translation into standard GOWrite distribution.

Copyright

If translation is to be incorporated into GOWrite, copyright issues must be taken care of.

Translator has copyright for translation work. Thus translator permission is needed in order to incorporate translation into GOWrite. This permission has couple of possible forms.

One possible solution is to set translation into public domain. This requires only statement from translator in that effect. As result anyone can use and improve translation.

As alternative one may retain translation copyright, but give sufficient permissions for incorporating translation into GOWrite. Required permissions include:

File to send

In order to incorporate translation into GOWrite, translator should send preferably ALL files in GOWrite "updates" directory. This eases intergation work.


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