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From: Kenneth Rohde Christiansen <kenneth.christiansen at gmail.com>
Subject: How open source can help us.

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In short: Open source software is software of which the source is
available to anyone (almost always for free, but that's not a
requirement). Anyone may make modifications and/or redistribute the
software (without fees having to be payed to the author(s)).
--

Well open source is complicated because there are various different
licenses :) but generally it means what you said. Well, the most known
license is the GPL which requires you to always distribute the source
code (FOR FREE!) and if you make changes to the source (which is
allowed) you have to distribute the source code to those changes as
well (for free). You are allowed to sell products based on the source
code as long as you respect the license.

This means that we can take the source code and fix things that makes
the applicatiosn work with our languages, like for instance translate
different applications like GNOME, Evolution, OpenOffice, Mozilla
Firefox etc.

If anyone is interested in this I can surely help. I have many
contacts in the open source community (just came home from the open
source conference GUADEC - GNOME Users and Developers European
Conference in Kristiansand, Norway) and I used to be one of the
maintainers of the GNOME Translation Project.

Groutnis,
Kenneth

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