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4 <title>Brief Information about FreeWnn - FreeWnn@OSDN</title>
8 <h1>Brief Information about FreeWnn</h1>
10 <!-- <p>NOTE: This page may not cover current status.</p> -->
12 <p>NOTICE (2015/Dec/12): freewnn.org domain is still under our
13 control. But naming of hosting service we live has changed from
14 SourceForge.jp (sister site of SourceForge.net) to OSDN,
15 so please check and update your links / bookmarks etc.</p>
17 <p>[<a href="#whatis">What is FreeWnn?</a>]
18 [<a href="#download">Download</a>]
19 [<a href="#maillist">Mailing Lists</a>]
20 [<a href="#links">Links</a>]</p>
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27 <h2><a name="whatis">What is FreeWnn?</a></h2>
29 <li>'Wnn' is pronounced 'un-nu'. Basic information of Wnn is
30 described in (English version of)
31 <a href="http://www.tomo.gr.jp/wnn/wnn_e.html">"What is Wnn?"</a>.
32 <li>FreeWnn is derived (and GPL-ed) version of Wnn4.2,
33 contributed X11 software.
35 <li>FreeWnn is a client-server type Kana
36 (pronounciation) - Kanji in Japanese translation system. It
37 also converts to Hanzi in Chinese, both Simplified and
38 Traditional, and Hanja in Korean.
40 <li>Distributed under GNU GPLv2 / LGPLv2 (mainly library
41 part) or later version of each licenses.
42 (Some of the file may distribute separately under more
43 loose license. See each file for details.)
46 <h2><a name="download">Download</a></h2>
48 <p>Current (alpha) version: 1.1.1-a023</p>
50 <p>NOTE: We don't officially have a client implementation
51 now. (You can try uum ( terminal frontend for Japanese) by
52 adding '--enable-client' with the configure script, but it is
53 experimental.) Please use (for example)
55 <!-- a href="http://www.m17n.org/tamago/index.en.html" -->Tamago<!-- /a -->
58 <a href="http://im-ja.sourceforge.net/">im-ja</a> and other
62 <p>You can get current (alpha) source code via
64 <a href="https://osdn.jp/projects/freewnn/releases/">Release Files</a>
65 section of the project page. We recommend the current version.
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72 <script src="//osdn.jp/projects/freewnn/files/compact.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
74 <p>The latest development code is hosted in the CVS repository of
75 OSDN . You can view the source tree through the web via
76 <a href="https://osdn.jp/cvs/view/freewnn/FreeWnn/">CVS Repository page</a>.
77 To get code via Anonymous CVS, you can do like the following:</p>
80 cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.osdn.jp:/cvsroot/freewnn login
81 (Password is not needed, so you just press return when password: prompt appears)
83 cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.osdn.jp:/cvsroot/freewnn co FreeWnn
87 <a href="https://osdn.jp/projects/freewnn/scm/" target="_top">Code repository list</a>
88 section of project page for details.
92 <h2><a name="maillist">Mailing Lists</a></h2>
94 <p>We currently have two mailing lists.
98 <li> <a href="http://lists.osdn.me/mailman/listinfo/freewnn-users">freewnn-users</a>:
99 User-supported mailing-list about FreeWnn development and
100 usage of FreeWnn. Discussions are held in Japanese for now,
101 but bug reports (etc.) in English are welcome. (Message in
102 other language are also welcome, but we don't read them very
104 (<a href="http://lists.osdn.me/mailman/listinfo/freewnn-users">Subscribe</a>
105 / <a href="http://osdn.jp/projects/freewnn/lists/archive/users/">Archive</a>)
107 <li><a href="http://lists.osdn.me/mailman/listinfo/freewnn-cvs">freewnn-cvs</a>:
108 Deliver for developers to commit changes the source tree. You
109 should not send your mail to this list. Use freewnn-users.
110 (<a href="http://lists.osdn.me/mailman/listinfo/freewnn-users">Subscribe</a>
111 / <a href="http://osdn.jp/projects/freewnn/lists/archive/cvs/">Archive</a>)
115 Notice: FreeWnn mailing list (freewnn at tomo gr jp) has been closed
116 (<a href="http://www.tomo.gr.jp/users/wnn/index.html">Part of archive</a>
121 <h2><a name="links">Links</a></h2>
123 <li><a href="/" target="_top">Our current web page</a> (in Japanese)
124 <li><a href="https://osdn.jp/projects/freewnn/">Project page</a>
127 <li>Original <a href="http://www.tomo.gr.jp/FreeWnn/">FreeWnn Project page</a>
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133 <address>Edited by Tomoki Aono (aonoto at users.osdn.me)</address>
134 Created: Tue Jan 3 00:28:36 JST 2006<br>
136 Last modified: Fri Dec 12 16:23:00 JST 2014