[haiku-bugs] [Haiku] #7907: [AboutSystem] Add hypertext functionality for LGPL license
- From: "taos" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:22:08 -0000
#7907: [AboutSystem] Add hypertext functionality for LGPL license
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Reporter: taos | Owner: nobody
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Applications/AboutSystem | Version: R1/Development
Keywords: | Blocked By:
Blocking: | Has a Patch: 1
Platform: All |
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Attached is a patch that would add to "LGPL license" the same hypertext
functionality that has already been implemented for "MIT license" in the
following string from AboutSystem.cpp:
{{{
// Haiku license
BString haikuLicense = B_TRANSLATE_COMMENT("The code that is
unique to "
"Haiku, especially the kernel and all code that
applications may link "
"against, is distributed under the terms of the <MIT
license>. "
"Some system libraries contain third party code
distributed under the "
"<LGPL license>. You can find the copyrights to third
party code below."
"\n\n", "<MIT license> and <LGPL license> aren't variables
and can be "
"translated. However, please, don't remove < and > as
they're needed "
"as placeholders for proper hypertext functionality.");
}}}
As there was some confusion regarding the translation of "[...] %MIT
license% [..]" on HTA due to the fact that % is usually associated with
variables that are not to be translated, this patch switches from %[...]%
to <[...]> (with the additional benefit of enabling two different
hypertext links) - but a change to {[...]}, for example, would of course
also be possible.
Unfortunately - in contrast to the MIT license ("MIT") - there is more
than one LGPL license: "GNU LGPL v2", "GNU LGPL v2.1", "GNU LGPL v3". So,
we would first have to decide which one is "the" LGPL license we want to
link to (for testing purposes the patch links to v2.1 at the moment).
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/7907>
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