[INFO] Want to port Ergane?

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Kenneth_Christ=EDqua?= <kenneth ripen dk>]

Hi, all you language loving hackers,

    Here is some information for you guys who
    are thinking about porting Ergane to Linux/
    GNOME.

    For more info about Ergane, take a look 
    at the proposal I posted some time ago

Kenneth

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Van: Kenneth Christíqua <christiqua@yahoo.dk>
Aan: Gerard van Wilgen <Gerard@gvwilgen.demon.nl>
Datum: zaterdag 24 april 1999 00:01
Onderwerp: Re: Ergane


>Btw, are you willing of changing the Ergane
>license (if there is any) to GPL (GNU Public License)
>, if someone is interested in porting it to linux, and then 
> maybe also using it for spellchecking and a lot of other
>cool stuff.

Okay, I have no objections to make Ergane a copyleft programme. 
The sources are in fact already available for downloading, although 
the present source files are outdated. I shall update them as soon 
as possible.

>I reason is that we are building a nice GUI on top
>of linux, called GNOME, and since this is in the
>"early" (18 months) state of developement, we
>could maybe integrate Ergane into the main part of
>the project, and then use it for simple translation,
>spell checking, dictionary, etc. (If we are
>allowed to redistribute the dictionaries, plus
>maybe copy some of the ideas of your program)
>

It should be possible to copy the basic dictionary files (VO0, VO1, VO2,
ES0, ES1, ES2, TR0 and TR1) to a Linux system and use them without
having to convert them. The MDB files (MS Access 1.1 format) on the 
other hand would have to be exported and then converted to a format that 
can be used in Linux. The MDB files contain all dictionary data other than the
wordlists themselves (gender of nouns, sort indices, pronunciation, word usage,
and much more, depending on language and development stage).

Gerard van Wilgen