Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: online/web based gettext editor

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 01:36:29AM +0300, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> [ CC-ing sv-hackers. ]
> 
> Ali Servet Donmez wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 09:48 +0300, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> > > others are Rossetta (which will remain non-free even when Launchpad is 
> > > relicensed, IIRC)
> > 
> > It seems that Launchpad is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public
> > License, version 3 [https://dev.launchpad.net/], including Translations
> > part (codenamed "Rosetta") (Licenses: GNU Affero GPL v3)
> > [https://launchpad.net/rosetta/], among others...
> 
> Yes, it looks like they made the whole thing free, which is very good
> news.
> 
> > Any thoughts?
> 
> As I told you the Savannah hackers had plans (and still have -- AFAIK
> they're waiting for some refactoring going upstream) to install
> Pootle, which is specifically for translations only.
> 
> LP looks like a huge beast, very complex, and most of the
> functionality overlaps with Savannah's.  I'm not aware of any
> discussions about Launchpad, and I don't have a clue if Rosetta can
> function separately.
> 
> I guess people will just start exploring it, as it was a black box for
> everyone except those who signed NDAs with Canonical...

Yes, right now it seems it's urgent to wait. The project looks very
specific as of now, so let's see if it evolves.

Btw, I was also pointed to Vertaal:
- http://www.vertaal.com.ar/
- http://code.google.com/p/vertaal/
which is used at OpenSUSE.

Do you know about it?

-- 
Sylvain