Launchpad (website)

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Launchpad is a web application and web site supporting software development, particularly that of free software. Launchpad is developed and maintained by Canonical Ltd. It has several parts: Rosetta, a site for translating human language strings that occur in software programs; Malone, a bug tracker; and Soyuz, a tool for deriving custom software distributions. Launchpad is currently primarily used in the development of Ubuntu, a Linux distribution. Launchpad uses the free/open source Zope 3 application server.

[edit] Free Software

Launchpad has been criticised as being hypocritical by some members of the free software community for not being available under a free license, such as the GNU GPL, despite its aims. The developers have stated that they aim to eventually release it under a free software license.^[1]