Re: A Fribidi alternative?

["Chahine M. HAMILA" <hchahine at magic dot fr>]

Salam,
Fribidi is good enough, there's no need to reinvent the wheel, it would be a
disservice to yourself and it would certainly not bother anyone else but
those who would have to code it again.
The good news is: it is LGPL, so who cares about what someone who
contributed a couple of lines of code to it might say?
Seriously, you should have just laughed at his suggestion. I doubt that many
Arabs would feel bound by any limitations Israelis could try to put in OSS
licenses about them, and vice-versa (do you see an Algerian in a court in
Haifa against someone who violated his prohibition to use his OSS by an
Israeli, or symmetrically, an Israeli in Khartoum sueing an Arab over an OSS
license violation?:):))
Yallah, just ignore that, it's unnecesary noise.

----- Original Message -----
From: "VisualMind" <visualmind at php dot net>
To: <general at arabeyes dot org>
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 3:10 PM
Subject: A Fribidi alternative?


> Hi all,
>
> I was following the Fribidi php extension http://www.php.net/fribidi
> so I thought I may need to use the opensource project
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/fribidi
>
> but it seemed to me that authors have some contempt against Arabic
countries,
> or that's what I think ( eg: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?
> thread_id=2747434&forum_id=3189 ) so I thought may be I could find another
> Arabic-authored solution as an alternative for fribidi; could any one help
me
> about it?
>
> Regards,
> Salah Faya
> _______________________________________________
> General mailing list
> General at arabeyes dot org
> http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
>