El sáb, 02-02-2008 a las 23:43 +0100, Gerard Meijssen escribió:
Hoi,
<snip>
The point of all this; when the data is treated
seperately from the program,
you can have the Wikipedia, the Wiktionary, the OmegaWiki data and use it.
It is not affected by the license of the software, it just needs to fit the
required format. Giving your starting question this is really relevant.
We have some fine documentation describing the layout of the language
data so that it will be possible to understand better:
http://xixona.dlsi.ua.es/~fran/apertium2-documentation.pdf
I thought I'd explained it sufficiently well in the first post, but it
appears not. Perhaps you could present your idea for how to re-organise
the data so that the programmatic parts are entirely separate from the
non-programmatic parts and present it to our mailing list.
PS you can use the OmegaWiki data anyway, its license
is liberal enough for
that :)
When it works ;)
Fran
Thanks,
GerardM
On Feb 2, 2008 11:24 PM, Francis Tyers <spectre(a)ivixor.net> wrote:
El sáb, 02-02-2008 a las 22:21 +0000, Thomas
Dalton escribió:
> You're right, thinking more it could be
done with a diff that each
user
> individually patches.
>
> Of course this would make distributing binary packages difficult (the
> language data is compiled into a binary representation before used).
> Although a binary diff could be done.
>
> But then, when was the last time an end-user had to apply a binary
diff
> to their free software? Personally I
don't consider this reasonable or
> maintainable for a large number of language pairs. Which was my
original
point.
You can distribute the binary representation under GFDL. You would
need a plain text version as well, to satisfy the license, but there's
nothing stopping you having two versions of the text, one for the
benefit of the user (and the lawyers) and one for the benefit of the
software.
It would still require the users to perform a binary patch. Something
which is not particularly within the realm of normal or reasonable
end-user experience.
Fran
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