Can resources and translations match Windows?

[Paul Vriens]

Hi,

This question came to me when I saw Austin's patch about adjusting 
notepad resources to more closely match XP.

Is there some kind of copyright on the resources? Are we allowed to use 
the same strings or should it always be our own words (like with 
comments in the source)?

[Austin English]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Paul Vriens wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This question came to me when I saw Austin's patch about adjusting notepad
> resources to more closely match XP.
>
> Is there some kind of copyright on the resources? Are we allowed to use the
> same strings or should it always be our own words (like with comments in the
> source)?

FWIW, I did so that writing tests for XP would more easily work with
wine, without making two versions of the tests.

[Paul Vriens]

Austin English wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Paul Vriens wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This question came to me when I saw Austin's patch about adjusting notepad
> > resources to more closely match XP.
> >
> > Is there some kind of copyright on the resources? Are we allowed to use the
> > same strings or should it always be our own words (like with comments in the
> > source)?
>
> FWIW, I did so that writing tests for XP would more easily work with
> wine, without making two versions of the tests.

I know why you did and it makes sense (at least for this purpose). I was 
just wondering.

[Alexandre Julliard]

Paul Vriens  writes:
> Hi,
>
> This question came to me when I saw Austin's patch about adjusting
> notepad resources to more closely match XP.
>
> Is there some kind of copyright on the resources? Are we allowed to
> use the same strings or should it always be our own words (like with
> comments in the source)?

As far as possible it should be our own words. In general there's no
reason to copy the exact wording of error messages.