Is rosetta a commercial software?

[Christian Rose]

On 7/9/06, Munzir Taha <munzirtaha at gmail.com> wrote:
> As far as I understand rosetta is not made GPL yet so the developers would
> have some benefit or compensation from it. I would be interested in paying
> for rosetta to aid in the process of making it GPL one day beside I am
> interested in using it from my own server. Can some one point me in the right
> direction to buy it?

I think Canonical considers Rosetta to be more of a service that they
are offering, rather than a software product per se. So no, they are
probably currently not interested in selling it as such. However, I
cannot speak for Canonical; so if you are seriously interested, you'd
better speak to a Canonical representative directly to see what they
have to say.

I suspect Pootle (http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle) may be
more of what you're looking for. Pootle is a free software web-based
translation application, and if you want to run it on your own server,
you can simply download the code for it and follow the instructions to
set it up.


Christian