Per Tunedal <[email protected]>
writes:

> Hi Tino,
> I guess that means that the Apertium project doesn't own the code and
> cannot release the code under any other but the current license: GPL v.2
> or any later version.

Without copyright assignment or similar, the license is basically fixed.

> In that case the only solution might be a completely new application,
> wouldn't it? I'm not even sure if such an application could use the
> Apertium online service? What about the dictionaries?

Dictionaries are under the same license. Unless Apple change their ways,
an offline Apertium translator will not be allowed in the App Store.

It would be possible to create a non-GPL app from scratch which gets
translations from an apertium installation running on a server. The app
creator should probably run their own api server since api.apertium.org
apparantly is down a lot. But an online translator app sort of takes
away one of the main selling points – why not just use a web site in
that case? You can even have OCR; iOS 6+ allows web pages access to the
camera with a simple HTML tag, so you could make a web site that lets
you take a picture of some Kyrgyz with your phone, run it through OCR
and Apertium on the server and send back the translation in Kazakh. And
the web page would run not only on iOS.


-- 
Kevin Brubeck Unhammer

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