Comment 4 for bug 1273178

I'm updating the copyright file in the josm package maintained by the Debian GIS team to addres these issues.

Don-vip (vincent-privat) on 2014-01-27:
> - There's a big problem with copyright for .po files. I do not know where your values come from, but it is more complicated than that. Either remove copyright or use the complete list of contributors for each language. As we are still using Launchpad right now, I assume you are more familiar than us to retrieve this information correctly.

The copyright information may have been retrieved from the Last-Translator headers in the .po, or the VCS repo history.

I am not familiar with Launchpad translations, but I cannot seem to find any list of contributors to the JOSM translations. The bzr log for the repo at lp:~openstreetmap/josm/josm_trans/ is not informative either.

I'm tempted to remove the translation paragraphs from the copyright file placing them under the same copyright and license as JOSM, but they have differences sources and contributors so the translations should be documented separately.

Is it possible to document the copyright and license applicable to the translations available at lp:~openstreetmap/josm/josm_trans/ ?

The README.TXT at http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/editors/josm/i18n/ also doesn't document the license and copyright.