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12.2 Responsibilities in the Translation Project ¶

The following rules and habits apply to the Translation Project.

The translator’s responsibilities are:

• She submits a translations disclaimer to the Free Software Foundation (once only, and only when she wants to translate a package that requires a disclaimer).

  A disclaimer is a legal document that allows the software package to distribute her translation work. It is not as strong as a copyright assignment. Merely, it says that the signer will never make use of the copyright on her translations: will never forbid copying them, and will never ask for some kind of compensation. This guarantees that the FSF (and everyone else) will always be allowed to freely distribute these translations. The FSF wishes to have this guarantee in a legally binding manner, to be on the safe side.

  There are two ways to submit the disclaimer: Either online through this form on the FSF’s web site, or by printing, signing, and submitting the file disclaim-translations.txt found in the GNU gettext distribution.

• Agree with the other translators of the same team who is “in charge” for the translations of a particular package.

The Translation Project has a coordinator. He can be reached at ‘[email protected]’. His responsibilities are:

• He maintains the web site https://translationproject.org/.
• When he receives a release or prerelease announcement from one of the software package maintainers, he extracts the POT file(s) and sends notifications to all translation teams about it.

The responsibilities of the package maintainers are:

• To incorporate the translations in the software package before a release.
• To forward bug reports about the translations to the respective translation team. A developer or maintainer should never apply a translation fix himself, because that would cause conflicts with the translation team.