Hoi, Why do you say that it is proprietary and why do you state that there is a GPL violation ? Making accusations like this without providing evidence is not what I expect.
When you look at their website you find that the code can be found here ... http://sourceforge.net/projects/okawix/ so what gives ? Thanks, GerardM 2009/9/2 Manuel Schneider <[email protected]> > I want to add that Okawix uses code from the pre-ZIM GPL'ed ZenoReader and > ZenoWriter which has been developed by the openZIM team before we started > ZIM, but they changed it to be incompatible with Zeno and ZIM. > > So Okawix can be regarded to be as proprietary as well as also a GPL > violation. > > We have been contacted by Linterweb (the company behind Okawix) several > times > and we also invited them to the developers meeting, but actually they do > not > seem to be able for a collaboration with an open source community. > The Wikimedia Foundation had a similar experience when trying to work with > them. > > /Manuel > > > Am Mittwoch, 2. September 2009 schrieb Gerard Meijssen: > > Hoi, > > For you information Okawix is localised at translatewiki.net. > > Thanks, > > GerardM > > > > http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Okawix > > > > 2009/9/2 Manuel Schneider <[email protected]> > > > > > Hi Chengbin, hi list, > > > > > > static.wikimedia.org is currently not being updated and while the > dumps > > > processing has been assigned to and completely rewritten by Tomasz Finc > > > (developer at WMF), there has not been made any assignment concerning > > > HTML dumps. > > > > > > We had a Wikipedia Offline meeting at Wikimania last week and discussed > > > several issues. One issue is the fact, that WMF wants to see the ZIM > file > > > format being used for offline dumps and has suggested to include it > into > > > the > > > regular dumping process. > > > So one question was: When will that happen, what is the status of WMF > ZIM > > > dumping? > > > As ZIM uses HTML extracts Tomasz clarified that once > > > static.wikimedia.orghas been rebuild to be stable and sutainable, > > > integrating ZIM would be trivial. But he also informed us that this > task > > > has not yet been assigned. > > > > > > As Brion Vibber and Erik Möller have been at the meeting as well we > hope > > > that > > > this assignment will be made soon and this task has got higher > priority. > > > > > > This said I may also advise you not to you use the pure HTML dumps but > > > the ZIM > > > files for your Archos, because that's what they are meant for. > > > A ZIM file containing all german Wikipedia articles (>900,000) is 1,4 > GB, > > > an > > > additional full text search index takes another 1 GB. > > > > > > Greets, > > > > > > > > > Manuel > > > > > > Am Mittwoch, 2. September 2009 schrieb Chengbin Zheng: > > > > I bring this old issue up because I want to know if (or if not) > > > > progress (or plans) are made to update the static HTML version of > > > > Wikipedia. B&H photos just leaked the next generation of Archos > > > > portable media players. Unbelievably, the rumors of a 500GB version > is > > > > true! This is already tempting (especially the price at $420). Just > > > > waiting for specs > > > > > > on > > > > > > > September 15, the Archos event. I really hope it will support NTFS so > I > > > > > > can > > > > > > > use the compression feature. > > > > > > > > It would be really cool and convenient to have an offline copy of > > > > > > Wikipedia > > > > > > > anywhere I go without the need of Wi-Fi. What am I gonna do with > 500GB? > > > > > > > > BTW, does anyone know what is the size of the current static HTML > > > > English Wikipedia version uncompressed? Thanks. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > > > -- > > > Regards > > > Manuel Schneider > > > > > > Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens > > > Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge > > > www.wikimedia.ch > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > -- > Regards > Manuel Schneider > > Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens > Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge > www.wikimedia.ch > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
