KBabel/win32: GNU gettext license

Stanislav Visnovsky visnovsky at kde.org
Tue Dec 14 13:25:55 GMT 2004


Dňa Štvrtok 09 December 2004 18:44 Eva Brucherseifer napísal:
> 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?

For example. The original code uses a different method, but it's not a problem 
IMO.

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

Would be nice. Otherwise I have to take the code from Internet and test it.

Thanks!

Stano




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