Anthy -- Japanese Kana-Kanji Conversion Engine Library

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See https://www.nslabs.jp/patch.rhtml

目標1. 分岐したDebian版とFedora版のマージ

長らくメンテナンスされてきたのは Debian 版だが, Fedora 版は原作者 Yusuke Tabata 氏のヴァージョンから fork しなおしている。修正点も相互に異なっていて、どちらかへの片寄せは簡単ではない。

ブランチ | 元のリポジトリ |
--------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- |
upstream_master | https://salsa.debian.org/debian/anthy/ 'master' branch |
anthy-unicode | https://github.com/fujiwarat/anthy-unicode/ 'main' branch |

目標2. ライセンスの整理

Debian 版には GPLv3, LGPLv3, LGPLv2 の 3つの LICENSE ファイルが添付されているが、トリプルライセンスなのかどうか意図が不明。このファイルの下の方, Licensing セクションとも矛盾している。Fedora 版は LGPLv2 と GPLv2 の mix になっている。 元々のヴァージョンでは, Anthy には LGPLv2 が適用され, 辞書ファイルである alt-cannadic には GPLv2 が適用されていた。これを雑に一つのパッケージにまとめていたのが不味い。Debian 版はさらに混乱して、誤って (LGPL ではなく) GPLv3 を添付したのだろう (でないと下の記述と合わない). 現代の流儀だと, Anthy パッケージと, alt-cannadic から Anthy 形式の辞書を作るパッケージの二つに分割し、前者には LGPL を適用するのが意図をきちんと反映することになる。Debian 由来のコードを含むので, LGPLv3 (LGPLv2 ではなく) か.

目標3. Windows へのポーティング

GUI ではないのにべったり UNIX に依存している. ポータブルなコードに修正する。 -> ビルドは通る。テスト未了.

ライセンスもコードの品質も正直微妙だが、他方, Canna は古すぎて現代の環境でコンパイルすら難しい。Anthy ぐらいしか選択肢がない。トホホ

What's Anthy?

Anthy is a library for Japanese Kana-Kanji conversion, targeted for Japanese text input.

See following page for Anthy development:

http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianAnthy http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-anthy/anthy.git;a=summary

What's New?

See the file NEWS for new features and other user-visible changes in recent versions of Anthy.

Installation

The file INSTALL says how to build and install Anhty on your system.

Configuration

System administrator is expected to set up following three variables in anthy-conf.in (usually it's under /etc/anthy directory).

Variable name Example # Comment

ANTHYDIR /usr/share/anthy # Directory DIC_FILE /usr/share/anthy/anthy.dic # Dictionary file ZIPDICT /usr/share/anthy/dic/zipcode.t # Zipcode file

Anthy Dictionary (anthy.dic)

Here is a figure to explain how Anthy Dictionary (anthy.dic) is generated.

depgraph/*.depword depgraph/conjugate.table ---[depgraph/mkdepgraph]---> anthy.dep (1)

mkworddic/{extra.t,compound.t,adjust.t,utf8.t,udict}, alt-cannadic/{gcanna.ctd,gcannf.ctd,gtankan.ctd,g_fname.t} ---[mkworddic/mkworddic]---> anthy.wdic (2)

"initial anthy.dic" corpus/corpus.?.txt ---[calctrans/{proccorpus,calctrans}]---> corpus_info (3-1) weak_words (3-2)

calctrans/{corpus_info,weak_words} (3-1,3-2)

---[calctrans/calctrans]---> anthy.cand_info (3)

anthy.trans_info (4)

anthy.corpus_array (5)

anthy.corpus_bucket (6)

anthy.weak_words (7)

(1) depgraph/anthy.dep

2. mkworddic/anthy.wdic
3. calctrans/anthy.cand_info
4. calctrans/anthy.trans_info
5. calctrans/anthy.corpus_array
6. calctrans/anthy.corpus_bucket

(7) calctrans/anthy.weak_words

---[mkanthydic/mkfiledic]--->anthy.dic

Note that we need "initial anthy.dic" to generate anthy.dic, that's because 'proccorpus' uses Anthy Dictionary to parse text input.

Licensing

Anthy library is released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public Licence 3 (or later), i.e., LGPLv3+. See the file COPYING.LIB and COPYING for detail.

Since most of source files are released under the terms of LGPLv2 (or later), you might use parts of code under LGPLv2. See COPYING.LIB2_1 for detail.

Dictionary files under alt-cannadic/ and mkworddic/ are taken from "Alternative Cannadic" Project (alt-cannadic), which is released under the terms of GPLv2. See alt-cannadic/COPYING for detail.

For more licensing information in general, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html>

History

Anthy project was hosted at SourceForge.JP.

http://anthy.sourceforge.jp/ http://anthy.sourceforge.jp/cgi-bin/hiki/hiki.cgi

Since February 2009, development at there stopped. Bug fixes and feature requests was just floating around.

In May 2010, NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe@fsij.org> arranged Git repository at git.debian.org, put some of released versions of Anthy and Debian packaging code into the repository, and took over the development lead. At alioth.debian.org, pkg-anthy project was created for Anthy development and Debian packaging for Anthy and related packages.

Authors & Credits

See AUTHORS and THANKS.

Original Authors were TABATA Yusuke, UGAWA Tomoharu, and guys at Kyoto University Micro Computer Club. YOSHIDA Yuichi added some features. The project got fund from IPA Japan (NIIBE Yutaka was project manager in 2001 and Fumitoshi UKAI was project manager in 2003). In the GSoC 2006 program with FSIJ, HANAOKA Toshiyuki and Higashiyama Masahiko contributed some enhancements, under TABATA Yusuke's mentorship.

-- This file is part of Anthy.

Anthy is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Anthy is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.