Re: svn russian translation

[Nick Shaforostoff]
> ok, forget about translation getting into svn distro (~70 msgs is
> small effort), but i'm just interested in exact reason why.

The issue is that Canonical, Ltd. (the company behind the launchpad.net
site and the Rosetta tool) apparently claims copyright on the Rosetta
output file, and also claims copyright on behalf of "Rosetta
Contributors 2006". The Subversion Project only accepts code whose
copyright is assigned to CollabNet. If these claims are valid (which
seems doubtful, btw), you cannot reassign the copyright without
Canonical's permission.

When I mentioned this to someone involved in OpenOffice.org, he said
they had exactly the same problem (some OO.org translations are handled
through Rosetta) and he would bring it to their attention too.