Replace Transifex with Open source Translation System: Weblate

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Problems with Transifex

• Proprietary license and close source
• NO funding / grants / revenue / commercialization model allowed in their requirement for open source projects

  ...Eligible projects are the ones with publicly available source codes licensed under an OSI-approved license, and have no funding, revenue, or commercialization model. https://www.transifex.com/open-source/

• Terms and Services and Privacy Policy: longer texts indicates privacy loopholes (https://proton.me/blog/how-to-read-privacy-policy)
• Using Transifex proprietary service goes against Orcid Founding Principles

  8. ... For the software it adopts, ORCID will prefer Open Source.

https://weblate.org/

Description: Weblate is libre software web-based continuous localization system, used by over 2500 libre projects and companies in more than 165 countries.

• Features
• Docs
• Terms and Services and Privacy Policy (Very short)
  • Terms of Service Didn't Read
• Source Code: 4.3k stars and 65k commits on the main repo
• License: GPL3
• Sponsored by LibreOffice, Collabora, Fedora, OpenSUSE, FreedomBox (the non-linked use Hosted Weblate)

Hosting Options

• Free hosting for Open Source Public projects: 160k plan (Hosted Weblate)
• Self-hosted
• Paid support

Weblate landing page

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Using Transifex proprietary service goes against Orcid Founding Principles

8. ... For the software it adopts, ORCID will prefer Open Source.