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task #213: xcin

Submitter:  Hugo Gayosso <hgayosso>
Submitted:  -
   
 
Category:  Patent Database Should Start On:  Wed 06 Jun 2001 12:00:00 AM UTC
Should be Finished on:  Sun 10 Jun 2001 12:00:00 AM UTC Priority:  5 - Normal
Status:  None Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Percent Complete:  100%
Open/Closed:  Open Effort:  0.00

Fri 22 Jun 2001 01:53:14 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Free package(s) attacked:

xcin (http://xcin.linux.org.tw)

Who developed it:

Currently the maintainer is Tung-Han Hsieh

Feature or functionality endangered:

The problem is, that the main part of translating keystrokes to chinese characters are tables which make the mapping. Many of the widely used tables are commercial and are not directly
available in the Free Software. First there where some tools which tryied to extract the important informations from the tables, published with xcin but the current maintainer stopped this. Now they try to write own methods to simulate and replace the commercial software.

What the patent covers: Patents cover various tables which are important for Chinese input software
Patent holders: Don't speek chinese and can't gather the informations
Patent numbers: Don't speek chinese and can't gather the informations
patent expires: Don't speek chinese and can't gather the informations

Outcome:

The xcin project still lives but removed the extract-tools and is now developing their own input method, which follows the I18N and XIM standard.

Florian Forster <bruderflo>
Group administrator
-, original submission:  

From: Zhao Wei <zw@debian.org>
Subject: xcin
To: -email is unavailable-
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 01:37:32 +0800

http://xcin.linux.org.tw

xcin is an xim server for chinese software running under x window system.
please contact -email is unavailable- for details.

summary:
xcin as a chinese inputting software, has to deal with the so called input
methods, which is pattentable in china and taiwan. in some previous versions
of xcin, the author had to remove some patented input methods after he was
aware of the danger to distribute them without permission. some, or all, of
the removed input methods related files distributed previously with xcin, are
sole work of free software volunteers by simulate the interface of these input
methods under windows operating system.

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echo '>gro.naibed@wz< ieW oahZ'|rev

Hugo Gayosso <hgayosso>
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