Re: L10n license ?

[Rick Elliott <relliott@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You don't need the ULP license to localize 5.0 sources: that's what the NPL is
for.  You *might* need a ULP-like license to localize Netscape 5.0 binaries,
but since those aren't available yet, it's a moot point for now, but one which
we obviously have to solve.

There is no problem leveraging earlier languages from my perspective, but
you're right, the ULP license doesn't specify.  I changed the wording in the
kit docs that used to say "download the English export version" (to start your
localization with) to say "download the export version".  The idea here is if
people want to start with the Spanish version, they could.

Hope this helps.

Rick

Rog wrote:

> Rick Elliott wrote:
> >
> > Oops, sorry I missed this one!
> >
> > Yes, the ULP license is out.  It's not easy to find (I'll work on the
> > overall organization once I've gotten the rest of the kits out), but it's
> > there: http://www.mozilla.org/docs/l10n/ulpLicense.html.
>
> Hi Rick,
>
> The ULP at that URL allows end users to localize v4.0, not v5.0. I
> understand what you meant by "we wanted to start letting people work on
> creating localized products as soon as possible and that meant releasing
> 4.x kits", but shouldn't the ULP grant license to end users to localize
> v5.0 as well (despite there's no official kit from NS yet)?? Based on
> the current ULP, I cannot localize 5.0. That just doesn't sound right,
> does it?
>
> BTW I'm not trying to get picky about the wording of the ULP, I simply
> have a 95% localized v5.0 (you guess the locale :-) and would like the
> ULP to allow me doing so as well as allowing me to redistribute it.
>
> BTW, how about reusing leveraged resources in 5.0 from 4.x versions? Are
> end users allowed to re-use those resources? I imagine that's desirable,
> so as to keep terminology consistency from older versions for locales
> already localized, but the ULP does not mention that either...
>
> -Rog


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