Adding rosetta people [directly] to the loop, and removing boot for now. On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 08:31:55PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: [...] > The Ubuntu project recently announced the Rosetta project while the > Translate Toolkit team announced the Pootle project at about the same > moment. > > Rosetta: https://launchpad.ubuntu.com/rosetta > Pootle : http://pootle.wordforge.org [...] > At first glance, I would tend to favour the Rosetta system. This is > mainly because we (Debian, and especially the D-I team) have close > interaction with several Ubuntu contibutors and also because, up to > now, I have seen several benefits from Ubuntu go back into Debian. > > On the other hand, other people may have concerns about using an > infrastructure controlled by a commercial company such as > Canonical. The infrastructure itself is, as far as I know, not based > on free software products (I may be wrong...this is not very clear to > me). Indeed. Debian Social Contract: | 1. Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software | | We promise to keep the Debian GNU/Linux Distribution entirely free software. | As there are many definitions of free software, we include the guidelines we | use to determine if software is "free" below. We will support our users who | develop and run non-free software on Debian, but we will never make the | system depend on an item of non-free software. This is a no-go. We cannot use non-free software as part of the Debian infrastructure. There is nothing to discuss as is. > This is not my own concern, but I feel it may be shared so > I would not drive us into something which could make some people > uncomfortable. Another argument is that the Pootle project seems to > have been adopted (or on its way to be adopted) by several "key" FOSS > projects and has already received a great interest in the i18n/l10n > community. > > I certainly would prefer seeing both projects converge but I may be > dreaming.. I'd love to see this happening, too. But until then, pootle is the only way to go for us. Ubuntu guys, what about releasing your source code under a free licence? Bye, Mt.
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