Re: RFS: scim-waitzar, libwaitzar (re-submission) Attn: Paul Wise

2009-01-20 Thread S'orlok Reaves
> So which of these are used for creating the Myanmar.model > file? None of them, actually. Creating Myanmar.model takes a few steps: 1) Copy all Burmese words from Myanmar_List_v2.txt into Myanmar.model 2) For each word, create and store a reverse-look-up in Myanmar.model (The next few steps are

Re: RFS: scim-waitzar, libwaitzar (re-submission) Attn: Paul Wise

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:26 PM, S'orlok Reaves wrote: > >> Quick question between talks; is any of this language model >> software FOSS-licensed? > > There's > From my understanding, these are both "free" and provide "source", but their > licenses restrict them from being FOSS. Correct, t

Re: RFS: scim-waitzar, libwaitzar (re-submission) Attn: Paul Wise

2009-01-20 Thread S'orlok Reaves
> Quick question between talks; is any of this language model > software FOSS-licensed? There's the CMU/Cambridge SLM kit: http://svr-www.eng.cam.ac.uk/~prc14/toolkit.html ...which runs on Linux & Solaris. It is freely available, and comes with the source, but the source's copyright boilerplate

Re: RFS: scim-waitzar, libwaitzar (re-submission) Attn: Paul Wise

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 1:12 AM, S'orlok Reaves wrote: > If a third-party developer wants to create their own Myanmar.model, then they > will need their own language model software. (For example, they might use > weighted-difference pruning). Again, MyanmarList_v2.txt gives them everything > t

Re: RFS: scim-waitzar, libwaitzar (re-submission) Attn: Paul Wise

2009-01-20 Thread S'orlok Reaves
Updated: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/scim-waitzar/ > I guess so, no idea where the various jurisdictions stand > on that. I'd > err on the side of caution and say that they were/are > derivative works > of the fonts they are from. What role to they have in Makes sense. I've remo

Re: RFS: scim-waitzar, libwaitzar (re-submission) Attn: Paul Wise

2009-01-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 7:03 PM, S'orlok Reaves wrote: >> Which fonts are these? I'm wary of adding fonts to source packages; >> usually either the font is a copyright violation or should >> be packaged separately. > > It was just the Myanmar 3 font, which (according to a page on > fedoraproject

Re: RFS: scim-waitzar, libwaitzar (re-submission) Attn: Paul Wise

2009-01-18 Thread S'orlok Reaves
Ah, now we enter into the joyous legal details. I'll do my best to be as helpful as possible in this regard; please let me know if you need any clarifications. I only had to re-build one package this time: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/scim-waitzar/ > Which fonts are these? I'm w

Re: RFS: scim-waitzar, libwaitzar (re-submission) Attn: Paul Wise

2009-01-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:27 PM, S'orlok Reaves wrote: >> Are you able to ship the spec in the source package and generate >> Myanmar.model from the spec at build time? Or ship a myanmar-spec >> source package that builds and installs the the Model file? > Unfortunately, no. The model generator so

Re: RFS: scim-waitzar, libwaitzar (re-submission) Attn: Paul Wise

2009-01-08 Thread S'orlok Reaves
Thanks for the feedback. I'm going on a mini-vacation this weekend, so I worked a bit extra to implement your suggestions early --they were all pretty simple to nail down. Re-uploaded: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libwaitzar/ http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/scim-wai

Re: RFS: scim-waitzar, libwaitzar (re-submission) Attn: Paul Wise

2009-01-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:02 PM, S'orlok Reaves wrote: > Packages uploaded to mentors: > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libwaitzar/ > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/scim-waitzar/ Review, replies below. >> It might be a good idea to produce a kanaung fork with a >> new

Re: RFS: scim-waitzar, libwaitzar (re-submission) Attn: Paul Wise

2009-01-05 Thread S'orlok Reaves
Hope you all had a good holiday season. I've finally gotten some free time, so I've addressed & implemented (most of) the changes you (Paul) suggested. Sorry for such a long turnaround-time; I've had a lot of Debian policy reading to do. ;) Packages uploaded to mentors: http://mentors.debian.ne

Re: RFS: scim-waitzar, libwaitzar (re-submission) Attn: Paul Wise

2008-11-29 Thread S'orlok Reaves
Thanks for your review; I will address all of your points in turn later. At present, though, there is one in particular I'd like to clarify: > Personally I would expect /usr/include/waitzar-1.0/waitzar > to be /usr/include/waitzar, since it is that way for most packages. > Same for the pkgconfi

Re: RFS: scim-waitzar, libwaitzar (re-submission) Attn: Paul Wise

2008-11-29 Thread Paul Wise
[ Please reply to -mentors at least ] On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 5:37 PM, S'orlok Reaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have split libwaitzar off from scim-waitzar and built a separate package: > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/scim-waitzar/ > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/

RFS: scim-waitzar, libwaitzar (re-submission) Attn: Paul Wise

2008-11-28 Thread S'orlok Reaves
Good evening, I am re-submitting my packages scim-waitzar and libwaitzar for sponsorship, after making the changes requested after my last submission. (One of these changes involved splitting the package into two.) Thanks again for your corrections; I learned a lot about packaging as I imp