my 2cent: scim-python is (somehow) orphaned by upstream author, he is working on a similar project named ibus: http://code.google.com/p/ibus/
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 02:44, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org> wrote: > Deng Xiyue, le Mon 08 Sep 2008 22:33:35 +0800, a écrit : >> It is known that the building of pinyin module will result in >> downloading a word db which might be problematic to license issue, > > There are two problems: > - a license problem indeed: under which license py.db is distributed? > Nothing tells in the tarball, so we can't know. > - py.db can not be considered as the form that permits easy > modifications, so it must be rebuilt during the Debian > package compilation. There actually _is_ a script for that: > python/engine/PinYin/PYCreatePinYinDB.py. Problem is: the phrase > files are missing, and I can't find them in the svn either. These > files may pose license issues, which would actually be transmitted by > the very fact of downloading py.db... > > So as of the current state of the upstream tarball, enabling the Pinyin > module is not an option if we want to distribute scim-python in main. > Else it has to go to non-free. > > I guess next step would be to contact upstream to know what the state of > these phrase files is. > >> but it's better to have a switch to disable building this wordlist >> instead of creating an eunuch ;) > > I'm not sure to understand what you mean. If you want, you can build > the package yourself after having dropped the --disable-pinyin option > from debian/rules. But that'll build a non-dfsg free package. > > Samuel > > > -- Best Regards LI Daobing -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
