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bpierre / gtranslate

Translate the selected text using Google Translate.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/gtranslate/
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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Move to paid Google Translate API #71

Closed farmazon3000 closed 8 years ago

farmazon3000 commented 8 years ago

Did you consider moving to paid Google Translate API to avoid problems like #69? You may think about releasing paid version or crowd funding?

bpierre commented 8 years ago

gtranslate is fully open source and we can not include a secret key without breaking this principle. The only way would be to add some fields in the settings to allow people to do it themselves.

I don’t think it would work, as it is clearly targeting developers, and the experience of having to manage a Google Translate API account would be awful for someone who just want to use an addon that provides translation.

It is a very frustrating situation, and I hope Google will reconsider its position for open source projects in the future…

farmazon3000 commented 8 years ago

Fair enough.