Hi list,
Like I mentioned ealier last week, I intend to add BiDi support to WINE. There is a library called fribidi (http://fribidi.sourceforge.net/) that does a pretty good job, and seems exactly apropriate for this task. I have two questions:
A. What are my chances of getting a patch of this magnitude incorporated into the tree. The library is not particularily big, but includes a set of unicode translation files that are automatically generated from the unicode standard. It seems that WINE holds similar files itself, for similar purposes. I have not yet checked whether they conflict, and if they do, whether this conflict is resolvable.
B. The library is under the LGPL license. I understand that some of the WINE tree is under the same license, while other parts are under the X11 license. Can someone please comment on the implications of such a move? What things do I need to take into consideration?
I would also like to solicit the help of any Arabic speaking developer in this process. I know some of the basic concepts behind Arabic writing, but I am not nearly fluent enough to provide bug free code.
Shachar