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

I don't see how closed source apps would be part of our svn...
If you want it part of the base system, it would better be licenced
under MIT licence ...

2009/11/8, Jorge G. Mare <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 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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