[haiku] Re: Migration from Basho to Official Localization of Haiku

On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 11:45 -0800, Jorge G. Mare wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 11:00 +0100, Axel Dörfler wrote:
> > Eguchi Satoshi <satoshieguchi82@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Ok, I have posted whether JPBE.net would like and is able to do the
> > > following things on the JPBE.net forum:
> > >  1) replace Konatsu with VL-Gothic, and replace Canna with Anthy,
> > 
> > BTW, out of interest: is Anthy open source?
> 
> Anthy for Haiku is based on the LibAnthy conversion engine, which is
> LGPL; LibAnthy uses the CannaDic dictionary, which is GPL software.
> 
> SHINTA-san is releasing Anthy for Haiku under the following by-nc-nd
> Creative Commons license...
> 
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.1/jp/deed.en
> 
> ...for everything expect what he calls "third party code" (I suppose he
> is referring to the above-mentioned LPGL/GPL code).

Here is a summary based on SHINTA's response:

LibAnthy for Haiku is being released as LPGL, which is the same license
as the original LibAnthy, so no problem there. Source is here:

http://www.k5.dion.ne.jp/~shinta86/lib/LibAnthy9100eSrc.zip

The Haiku GUI developed by SHINTA is closed source, but since it is
dynamically lined to LibAnthy, the author believes there should be no
problems from a license point of view here either.

In summary, what we have is an open source library combined with a
closed-source GUI. With an eye on making Anthy the default Japanese
input method in the future, is this something that Haiku would be
willing to adopt? Your input welcome.

Regards,

Jorge/aka Koki

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