Alternative licensing organisation Creative Commons (CC) has adopted the South African-led Pootle translation tool to translate its ccHost and ccPublisher software.

Pootle is a web-based tool that allows users to easily translate free and open source software into their language without necessarily being programmers.

South African open source localisation guru and director of Translate.org.za, Dwayne Bailey, who co-founded the WordForge project, met the Creative Commons team at the iCommons Summit in Brazil in June where they were discussing possible ways to localise CC software. With Bailey close at hand, the team had a Pootle-powered translation server up and running in one afternoon.

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