Re: [Fwd: Re: CUPS Arabic support ?]

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Ahmad Khalifa <ahmad at khalifa dot ws> wrote:
> ok, here is how we stand. what should i do ????

Sounds like something we've gone through in the past (ie. that's why
miniBidi exists :-) - if the license is a show-stopped then I recommend
continuing with miniBidi (taking into account the recent notes posted
and the need for the enhacements mentioned - spend the 2-3 days you
noted to make miniBidi "much" better :-).

Salam and keep up the great drive.

 - Nadim

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: CUPS Arabic support ?
> Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 15:01:06 -0400
> From: Michael Sweet <>
> Organization: Easy Software Products
> Newsgroups: cups.development
> 
> Ahmad Khalifa wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > the patch is now almost ready, but...
> > we feel that changing the Bidi Engine from
> > minibidi to Fribidi would be better for CUPS.
> > 
> > Fribidi is available as an external library and
> > it already comes out-of-the-box in some distros.
> > as the Bidi Algorithm changes over time it would
> > be better to use Fribidi.
> > 
> > your opinion on this please ?
> 
> Without knowing the details of the license for Fribidi (do you have
> a link), I can't say.  Any patch that is accepted into CUPS MUST
> allow for relicensing (we license CUPS to third parties like Apple
> who often want additional rights beyond those allowed by the GPL).
> If Fribidi is GPL'd, then we can't use it.
> 




	
		
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