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

On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 18:23 +0100, PulkoMandy wrote:
> > "base system" is a bit fuzzy. IMO, the svn repository should only contain
> > open source software available as under a free license. Regarding optional
> > packages (or later packages installable via the package manager), closed
> > source software is fine by me, but I think I'd prefer our releases to
> > contain free software only, respectively at least make non-free software an
> > opt-in installation option.
> 
> "base system" would be what you get when building from svn trunk
> without any optional package. So, Anthy could still be integrated to
> releases and that's fine for me, but please consider open sourcing it
> so we can take care of building it when we want to get an ARM version,
> for example...

Ideally, I would also like to see a fully open source Anthy, so that it
can replace Canna. This would bring Japanese input in Haiku on par with
Linux distros (they all use Anthy).

If SHINTA were willing to open source all the code, then that would be
possible; I have asked him, and waiting for a response. But if open
sourcing is not possible (which could well be the case), then Anthy
would have to be part of some sort of optional (language?) package. In
this case, I would still leave Canna where it is, just in case.

Regards,

Jorge/aka Koki

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