Re: Concerning 'Arabic Conjugator'

[Youcef Rabah Rahal <rahal at arabeyes dot org>]

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Salam,

On Sunday 09 May 2004 20:20, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> --- Abdulaziz Al-Arfaj <alarfaj0 at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> > The author is Dr. Chafiq Mokbel, from the University
> > of Balamand, Lebanon. I talked with him the last few
> > days and he has every intention to make the project
> > public domain.
>
> So the code still isn't ?  Want license will this be under btw ?
>
> > I'll keep reading the source code until I get my head
> > around it, but I'll post it here and see if anyone cares
> > to take a look.
>
> Please don't - toooo late :-)  If the code is not under some open
> source license we really don't care to look at it.  Once GPL or
> similar it adopted, Youcef will be your contact point on the code
> and on importing it to Arabeyes CVS (I'm sure they will be some
> contact outside the realm of the lists to iron out issues).
>
> Arabeyes has a new policy in which 'core' members rotate ownership
> of resolving issues on new projects up until they are imported into
> CVS and lucky Youcef (tm) :-) got assigned this project (not sure
> what you'll call this project, but "conjugator" seems logical).
>
> So in short, Youcef and yourself will work this out and will ISA
> get it into CVS soon (get the open source license resolved ASAP).

Yes. I think the license is the most important thing now.

Another question: who will be working on the code, you, the original author, 
both ?

I think there are some other fields where this program can be useful: what 
about application destined to children (or not :) to learn the grammar ? What 
about translation applications (à la Babelfish or Ajeeb ?!) that use Wordlist 
and Conjugator in order to translate paragraphs ?

So, please give us those details (license, maintainer...) as soon as you've 
them so we can proceed with the project's import.

Salam,

- -- 
Youcef R. Rahal
Arabeyes.org
http://www.arabeyes.org/~rahal
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