Jeremias Maerki wrote: > If you look at my initial post for the vote you'll see my > main reasons for getting this started. If we want to be clean
I had. > about following ASF policy then we would have had to invest > more time sorting out the problems. I think the patterns that > remained until the end were not tainted as such. They are > merely derived works from other people from which we would > need grants to be on the safe side as far as ASF licensing > policy is concerned. So in this light it was a blanket > decision to get out of the hyphenation pattern business. If > someone starts creating hypenation patterns under a BSD or > Apache license that would be great, of course. OK. Thanks. I think we'll leave the existing patterns intact until we learn of problems, but start building new ones that have a more clear heritage. The only way I see to do this right is to start word lists, let users contribute to them (in small quantities at a time), and build the hyphenation patterns ourselves. Joerg, do you still have the Java patgen port mentioned here?: http://mail-archives.eu.apache.org/mod_mbox/xmlgraphics-fop-users/200406.mbo x/[EMAIL PROTECTED] And do you have any interest in contributing it? I did not find it here: http://people.apache.org/~pietsch/ The other issue is where this stuff should be hosted. IMO it is bigger than FOray. If it fits with OFFO, that is fine, but I am under the impression that it probably doesn't because OFFO is, by definition, using the "other" licenses. It fits into aXSL's mission reasonably well, and, unless someone has a better idea, I'll set up something there to get this jump-started. Victor Mote
