Rosetta Stone a permanent return. In December 2009, he proposed to drop his claim for the permanent return of the Rosetta Stone if the British Museum lent the stone to Egypt for three months for the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum at Giza in 2013. These requests were refused. As John Ray has observed, "the day may come when the stone has spent longer in the British Museum than it ever did in Rosetta." There is strong opposition among national museums to the repatriation of objects of international cultural significance such as the Rosetta Stone. In response to repeated Greek requests
Rosetta Stone (software) 3.0 or 4.0.x. The Rosetta Stone v2.1 through v2.2.x are only compatible with v6.x language courses. These versions of the language packs and software engine are neither backward compatible nor forward compatible. Language discs developed for The Rosetta Stone v2.0.x are incompatible with these later revisions of the software. In v2.1.4.1A of The Rosetta Stone, the program began using copy protection software called SafeDisc. Rosetta Stone Version 3 is not backward compatible with language packs developed for Rosetta Stone Versions 1 or 2. Version 3 was initially released in August 2007 for ten bestselling languages, with other languages following later