A BSD-licensed internationalization solution?

Jan Beich jbeich at tormail.org
Wed Sep 12 21:06:15 UTC 2012


Zhihao Yuan <lichray at gmail.com> writes:

>>
>> Here are many applications using GNU gettext to provide an
>> internationalized user interface. But I found that there isn't a
>> BSD-licensed gettext. (so BSD apps do not have internationalization?)
>>
>> Is there one? Then I can just switch from gettext to that.
>
> libintl is LGPL, we don't have license issues against it.

There is BSD licensed libintl, though. It seems to work fine with GPL
gettext/msgfmt tools and no recompilation (libmap.conf trick).

# grep for "citrus"
http://www.netbsd.org/docs/software/3rdparty/

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