Re: [edict-jmdict] JMdict Internationalization

[Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@*********>]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Jim Breen <jimbreen@gmail.com> wrote:
> The Dutch and Italian ones are active projects too, and shouldn't be
> included in the transifex exercise. They are slightly different - the
> Dutch one is aimed at building a Japanese-Dutch dictionary from scratch,
> whereas The Italian one is setting out to retranslate JMdict.

Oh, so I guess these projects are not included into the JMdict
releases yet, are they?

It looks like the Italian project is pretty similar to what we are
doing. How about suggesting using the Transifex interface once it is
functional? Especially since we already have contributions in Italian
here.

> If there is interest in rolling any of the others into the transifex
> environment, the people involved in the original versions need to
> be contacted and the permissions sorted out. I don't expect too many
> problems with the Swedish, Hungarian and Slovenian. Spanish may
> be more of a problem - it took me years to get access and approval
> for the current collection on WWWJDIC.

Since the JMdict (including its foreign translations) is distributed
under a CC licence, I do not see any permission problem here.
According to the licence, nothing prevents us from running another
effort based on the JMdict file itself.

But anyway, let's get the French version up and running first.

Alex.