Re: Nadim's shaping code in C

[Haydar Net <haydar at haydar dot net>]

Salam,
I am back from a long vacation in UAE, lets go back to business ;)
I Would be very happy to see nadim's shaping code without any 
dependency, this will give us/me the hope to add it to many important 
programs such as bootsplash and maybe THE KERNEL ( utf8 encoding and 
later iso..., cp..... encodings )

I can't wait to see your work done :)
Haydar

Mohammed Sameer wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:54:31PM -0700, Alex Perez wrote:
>  
>
> > Mohammed,
> >    
> >
> > > Salam all,
> > > This is a *port* of Nadim's shaping code to C
> > >      
> > Excellent, his was writtein in C++ I take it? Is this GPLed? If so, would
> > you be willing to release the copyright into the public domain (open
> > source political reasons for this, see below)
> >    
> I'm afraid it's GPLed.
> I really don't like public domain, But I have no problem releasing the 
> copyright into the public domain BUT if there is a good reason for that.
>
> I didn't understand the C++ part :-|
>
>  
>
> > > I wrote this a while ago, promissed Nadim to clean it, But i didn't find
> > > time till now.
> > >
> > > Maybe it's not perfect or required, But maybe anyone'll make use of it.
> > >
> > > I know that glib is required but i'll try and get rid of this
> > > dependency.
> > >      
> > Once this is done, I'd be *very* interested in writing an Objective-C
> > wrapper for this and using it in the GNUstep project. But a glib
> > dependency is a showstopper. I'm currently investigating the difficulty of
> > adding Arabic + Shaping support to GNUstep (see www.gnustep.org if you
> > dont know what it is, or if you have some specific questions, feel free to
> > ask.)
> >    
> I know, I want to get rid of glib, Thus gaining 2 things:
> 1) Getting rid of a dependency
> 2) Using static buffers, eleminating the need to malloc(), free().
> But i won't be able to do this before tharusday the 9th of october 
> "exams".
> I think that GNUstep is GPLed ?
> So we don't have a problem with my gpled code ?
> What i want to say is:
> If releasing the code into public domain is the only solution to add 
> bidi and Arabic into GNUstep, I'll do it or at least give the GNUstep 
> project ONLY the rights to use the code "I don't know wheather this is 
> possible or not", I hate spending time to do 
> anything then someone takes the code and uses it in a closed source 
> application.
>
> I intend to make it a library "Or make it easier to add it to any code" 
> but this'll happen when I remove the glib dependency.
>
> Regards,
>
>  
>
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