Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of libtongues - savannah.nongnu.org

[Jonathan Gonzalez V.]

Francis Tyers <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Francis Tyers:

I have approved your project.  You will receive an automated e-mail
containing detailed information about the approval.

Regards,


> Platforms supported: GNU/Linux
> Dependencies: none except glib
>
> I am aware of the requirements of the GPL and LGPL :)
>
> The algorithms (with one exception) will be conceived and written by
> myself. 
>
> The exception is an algorithm written by Gertjan van Noord in perl
> (published until the GPL), and implemented in C of the technique
> described in:
>
> Cavnar, W. B. and J. M. Trenkle, ``N-Gram-Based Text Categorization''
> In Proceedings of Third Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and
> Information Retrieval, Las Vegas, NV, UNLV Publications/Reprographics,
> pp. 161-175, 11-13 April 1994. cf. 
>
> Anything i've left out?
>
> Fran
>
>
> On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 14:12 -0300, Jonathan Gonzalez V. wrote:
>> > Project Admins: Francis Tyers <address@hidden> ;
>> >
>> > Registration Date: Fri 11/12/04 at 08:37
>> >
>> > System Group Name: libtongues
>> > Submitted Description: A library for the automated recognition of
>> > natural (i.e. human) language from a block of text. Written in C with
>> > glib. There is currently no sourcecode available. The library will use
>> > a number of different algorithms (depending on the sample size) to
>> > determine the language of the test. Including but not limited to ngram
>> > based recognition, special character recognition, phoenetic
>> > recognition.
>> >
>> > Required software: glib (from gtk+)
>> 
>> Hi Francis Tyers:
>> 
>> Can you send us more information about your project? we wish to know
>> what platforms you will support, more about the dependence you will
>> add in the future, you said that will use different algorithms, are
>> this algorithms licensed or you will write them by yourself?. 
>> 
>> When you write the code you have to know that to release your program
>> properly under the GPL you must include a copyright notice and
>> permission-to-copy statements at the beginning of every file of source
>> code. This is explained in http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html.
>> Our review would help catch potential omissions such as these.
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>
>
>

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