El sáb, 02-02-2008 a las 22:21 +0000, Thomas Dalton escribió:
You're right, thinking more it could be done with a diff that each user individually patches.
Of course this would make distributing binary packages difficult (the language data is compiled into a binary representation before used). Although a binary diff could be done.
But then, when was the last time an end-user had to apply a binary diff to their free software? Personally I don't consider this reasonable or maintainable for a large number of language pairs. Which was my original point.
You can distribute the binary representation under GFDL. You would need a plain text version as well, to satisfy the license, but there's nothing stopping you having two versions of the text, one for the benefit of the user (and the lawyers) and one for the benefit of the software.
It would still require the users to perform a binary patch. Something which is not particularly within the realm of normal or reasonable end-user experience.
Fran