Hosting Rosetta

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>On 6/12/05, Steve Alexander <steve at canonical.com> wrote:
>> > Can I get Rosetta easily setup on a linux server ?  a URL to
>> > this how would be great.
>> 
>> Hosting your own Rosetta server is not possible today.
>> 
>> In the Rosetta FAQ, there is the question and answer
>> 
>>   Is Rosetta Open/Free Software?
>> 
>>   No, Rosetta is not Open or Free Software at the moment.
>>   Rosetta will probably become open source somewhere in
>>   the future but we don't have a date.
>> 
>> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/RosettaFAQ
>
>I've hesitated to ask this since it is partly answered in the F.A.Q.,
>but the emergence of this thread piques my curiosity again, so here
>goes: is the rationale for not making this open source explained
>anywhere? If not, could someone explain it?

I think that canonical wait an stable release of Rosetta before diffuse source and watch little server with Rosetta.

I don't know if it's the good answer but i think that is

>
>When I first moved my project's translations to rosetta, I assumed it
>was open source because it was linked to from ubuntu and because
>canonical explictly states that it is "committed to the development,
>distribution and promotion of open source software products, and to
>providing tools and support to the open source community."  Rosetta
>currently falls in line with the latter goal but not the former.
>
>Anyway, the FAQ clearly explains that rosetta is not open source, so I
>can't complain about the "tricked" feeling I had when I realized I'd
>unintentionally moved part of my development cycle to closed-source
>tools. But I would still like to know why.
>
>Wouldn't we all (we being rosetta-users) benefit if Anmar's company
>installed their own rosetta and began creating patches to improve it?
>And wouldn't it have been nice if I could have scratched my own itch
>to have a more efficient PO-export system for developers by hacking
>rosetta source rather than by creating a web scraper (which I've
>already had to patch once in response to superficial changes in the
>website -- such is the nature of scraping)?
>
>Sorry to sound grumpy -- I really do like rosetta and I also have
>faith that you all at canonical are smart people with pure hearts who
>are more than familiar with the pro-open-the-source arguments above.
>That said, I'm still in the dark as to how that presumed intelligence
>and pure-heartedness resulted in this decision: is there any chance
>you could explain the rationale in the FAQ? I'm sure I'm not the only
>one with questions.
>
>Tom
>
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