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gettext in new packagesIf you are writing a freely available program and want to internationalize
it you are welcome to use GNU gettext in your package. Of course
you have to respect the GNU Lesser General Public License which covers
the use of the GNU gettext library. This means in particular that
even non-free programs can use libintl as a shared library, whereas
only free software can use libintl as a static library or use
modified versions of libintl.
Once the sources are changed appropriately and the setup can handle the
use of gettext the only thing missing are the translations. The
Free Translation Project is also available for packages which are not
developed inside the GNU project. Therefore the information given above
applies also for every other Free Software Project. Contact
coordinator@translationproject.org to make the .pot files
available to the translation teams.