[Po4a-devel]Re: [Translate-devel] Presentation of the po4a project

[Dwayne Bailey]

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 12:01, Martin Quinson wrote:
> At the first glance, I'd say that there is a bunch of functionalities in
> common in both projects. The main differences are the targeted formats. For
> now, po4a has working modules for sgml (both DebianDoc and Docbook DTD), XML
> (a bunch of DTDs), groff (for man pages), pod (for the perl documentation),
> and the documentation strings of the 2.4.x kernels. Another difference is
> that po4a is in perl while Translate is in python. :)

Well it seems that together we are covering more bases with this PO
format thing :).  Between the two projects we've got most localisable
stuff covered.

We also have a basic:
 txt2po - good for translating READMEs
 sxw2po - OpenOffice docs - not perfect but workable

> From there on, I dunno exactly what to say. This mail is meant as a sort of
> "hello". 

Hello from here also.

> For example, I would like to take the code of your converters for Moz et OO
> formats, and change them to po4a modules. Is it ok for you guys? What is the
> licence of those codes? po4a is GPL, is it ok when I relicence your code to
> GPL? 

The code is GPL'd. I also hope we can find some common ground to make
localisation easier for the translator.

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