987674 - Add hyphenation resources for Czech

Status: NEW

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, enhancement)

Description

[Mike de Boer [:mikedeboer]]

Czech hyphenation resources are available here: http://mirrors.ctan.org/language/hyph-utf8/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-cs.tex

Jonathan, you are listed as a contributor to this file... do you see a reason not to include it and add Czech as a supported language for hyphenation?

Comment 1

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

The original czhyphen.tex gives its license as GPL2+; I don't think the fact that it has been restructured and re-encoded to utf-8 for newer TeX systems changes that. And AFAIK we can't pull GPL code directly into the product.

If the author (listed as Pavel Ševeček <pavel at lingea.cz>, but I don't know if that's still a valid address; the original file is dated 1995) would be willing to have the patterns relicensed under a Mozilla-compatible license, we could certainly include them. Want to try contacting him?

Comment 2

[Mike de Boer [:mikedeboer]]

Yup, I'll try.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

If you haven't contacted him already, why not let me do it? :-) It's what I do.

Gerv

Comment 4

[Mike de Boer [:mikedeboer]]

(In reply to Gervase Markham [:gerv] from comment #3)
> If you haven't contacted him already, why not let me do it? :-) It's what I
> do.

Ah, that might've been better... I didn't want sidestep you at all, so I hope you don't feel wronged. :/

I forwarded the email I sent, I hope you agree with its contents!

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Your sugggestion of LGPL might be tricky; I don't know how we ship hyphenation tables. But let's wait to see if he replies, and then we can talk further.

Gerv