KBabel/win32: GNU gettext license

[Eva Brucherseifer]

Am Donnerstag, 9. Dezember 2004 10:36 schrieb Stanislav Visnovsky:
> Dňa St 8. December 2004 18:06 Alexander Neundorf napísal:
> > On Wednesday 08 December 2004 15:01, Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
> > > It seems the best would be reimplement the single function KBabel
> > > really needs and drop the original gettext implementation.
> > >
> > > I will do it (using other algorithm for approximate string matching)
> > > soon.
> >
> > Maybe there is already something under a BSD license somewhere in the BSD
> > camp ?
>
> Maybe. Even the code taken from gettext is based on algorithm from a book
> and there is number of different algorithms as well doing similar thing
> (computing similarity of two strings). 

You need the similarity of two strings? Which algorithm do you need - 
Levenshtein? 

I have some (tested) code lying around, which I can contribute here with an 
arbitrary license, if you want. 

Greetings,
eva

> Google shows a number of different 
> implementations (but I haven't found the one used in gettext -> so KBabel
> will behave differently than gettext, but it should  not be a problem, if
> the results are reasonable although not exactly the same).
>
> Stano