Michael Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I read in the archive that you are worried about rosetta because it is
> non-free. I talked to Mark about it and he said it will become free
> software eventually. There is just no fixed date yet ("when it's
> ready" probably). I hope you reconsider using rosetta given that it
> will become free software and that all data (pot/po) and most tools
> (apt-ddtp-tools, apt-ddtp) are freely available now.I have seen this sort of statement before and noticed that if many users just start accepting non-free software just because it's been pledged, it seems to take even longer to become free software (two examples which come to mind: latex2html and t7e). The "when it's ready" maxim also sort of goes against "release early, release often", so development can end up chilling, although I doubt this is a problem for Ubuntu. Similarly, hopefully copyright assignment means it's straightforward to relicense even later. Please, bring rosetta back to debian-i18n "eventually" (when it's free software), not before. In the meantime, it looks like there's several free softwares for this, so what's the attraction of rosetta anyway? ;-) -- MJ Ray (slef), K. Lynn, England, email see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
