dRaakje
2nd July 2004 09:00 UTC

German license page texts
Hi,

I've just worked on creating an installer for a German client and they where very strict about the coiche of words in the license page. Their main issue was with the translation of the "license".

In the language files this is called "Lizenz Abkommen". They didn't agree with it, they wanted it to be "Lizenzbedingungen".

I've been told that the first translation is more of a contract agreement between two parties to which both agree. While the second is more in the line of a EULA.

Since my german isn't good enough to make the distinction, I thought whoever did those translations might think about these things and possibly change them.

Of course, I can customise those texts in my installer script (which I did). But if everybody has to do that...

Grtz

Remco

Joost Verburg
2nd July 2004 20:27 UTC

My German is also not that good, but to me it seems like the difference between 'license agreement' and 'license terms'.

If I'm correct, a license agreement contains license terms. Currently the title of the page is 'License Agreement' and it asks you to agree with the 'terms of the agreement', in German 'Bedingungen des Abkommens'.

So to me it looks like the translation is correct. If your translators think otherwise, let me know.

Yathosho
3rd July 2004 14:51 UTC

what i dont like about the german translation in general, that people didn't think of german terms, but tried to translate word by word. think a lot of sentences could be more to the point.

Joost Verburg
4th July 2004 20:26 UTC

If you have any suggestions for improvement, please let us know.

Yathosho
14th July 2004 19:30 UTC

will gladly do so, but give me a couple of days until i can look myself into it