Deng Xiyue, le Mon 08 Sep 2008 22:33:35 +0800, a écrit : > It is known that the building of pinyin module will result in > downloading a word db which might be problematic to license issue,
There are two problems: - a license problem indeed: under which license py.db is distributed? Nothing tells in the tarball, so we can't know. - py.db can not be considered as the form that permits easy modifications, so it must be rebuilt during the Debian package compilation. There actually _is_ a script for that: python/engine/PinYin/PYCreatePinYinDB.py. Problem is: the phrase files are missing, and I can't find them in the svn either. These files may pose license issues, which would actually be transmitted by the very fact of downloading py.db... So as of the current state of the upstream tarball, enabling the Pinyin module is not an option if we want to distribute scim-python in main. Else it has to go to non-free. I guess next step would be to contact upstream to know what the state of these phrase files is. > but it's better to have a switch to disable building this wordlist > instead of creating an eunuch ;) I'm not sure to understand what you mean. If you want, you can build the package yourself after having dropped the --disable-pinyin option from debian/rules. But that'll build a non-dfsg free package. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
