bug#23822: Request to add Probhat layout for Bengali in emacs.

bug#23822: Request to add Probhat layout for Bengali in emacs.

[উৎসব রায়]

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Probhat is currently most popular keyboard layout for writing Bengali in
linux. Please add it in by default.

These are the codes I added to my configuration file to define my own
Probhat layout:

;; Probhat Input Method

(quail-define-package
 "probhat" "Bengali-probhat" "probhat" t
 "Porbhat for Bangla" nil t nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil t)

(quail-define-rules
  ("!" ?!)
  ("1" ?১)
  ("@" ?@)
  ("2" ?২)
  ("#" ?#)
  ("3" ?৩)
  ("$" ?৳)
  ("4" ?৪)
  ("%" ?%)
  ("5" ?৫)
  ("^" ?^)
  ("6" ?৬)
  ("&" ?ঞ)
  ("7" ?৭)
  ("*" "ৎ")
  ("8" ?৮)
  ("(" ?()
  ("9" ?৯)
  (")" ?))
  ("0" ?০)
  ("_" ?_)
  ("-" ?-)
  ("+" ?+)
  ("=" ?=)
  ("Q" ?ধ)
  ("q" ?দ)
  ("W" ?ঊ)
  ("w" ?ূ)
  ("E" ?ঈ)
  ("e" ?ী)
  ("R" ?ড়)
  ("r" ?র)
  ("T" ?ঠ)
  ("t" ?ট)
  ("Y" ?ঐ)
  ("y" ?এ)
  ("U" ?উ)
  ("u" ?ু)
  ("I" ?ই)
  ("i" ?ি)
  ("O" ?ঔ)
  ("o" ?ও)
  ("P" ?ফ)
  ("p" ?প)
  ("{" ?ৈ)
  ("[" ?ে)
  ("}" ?ৌ)
  ("]" ?ো)
  ("A" ?অ)
  ("a" ?া)
  ("S" ?ষ)
  ("s" ?স)
  ("D" ?ঢ)
  ("d" ?ড)
  ("F" ?থ)
  ("f" ?ত)
  ("G" ?ঘ)
  ("g" ?গ)
  ("H" ?ঃ)
  ("h" ?হ)
  ("J" ?ঝ)
  ("j" ?জ)
  ("K" ?খ)
  ("k" ?ক)
  ("L" ?ং)
  ("l" ?ল)
  (":" ?:)
  (";" ?;)
  (""" ?")
  ("'" ?')
  ("|" ?॥)
  ("" ?‌)
  ("~" ?~)
  ("`" ?‍)
  ("Z" ?য)
  ("z" ?য়)
  ("X" ?ঢ়)
  ("x" ?শ)
  ("C" ?ছ)
  ("c" ?চ)
  ("V" ?ঋ)
  ("v" ?আ)
  ("B" ?ভ)
  ("b" ?ব)
  ("N" ?ণ)
  ("n" ?ন)
  ("M" ?ঙ)
  ("m" ?ম)
  ("<" ?ৃ)
  ("," ?,)
  (">" ?ঁ)
  ("." ?।)
  ("?" ??)
  ("/" ?্))

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bug#23822: Request to add Probhat layout for Bengali in emacs.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: উৎসব রায় <uroybd@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 09:35:27 +0600
> 
> Probhat is currently most popular keyboard layout for writing Bengali in linux. Please add it in by default.
> 
> These are the codes I added to my configuration file to define my own Probhat layout:

Thanks, but we need someone with copyright assignment on file to
submit such a significant contribution.

bug#23822: Request to add Probhat layout for Bengali in emacs.

[Glenn Morris]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Probhat is currently most popular keyboard layout for writing
>> Bengali in linux. Please add it in by default.
>> 
>> These are the codes I added to my configuration file to define my
>> own Probhat layout:
>
> Thanks, but we need someone with copyright assignment on file to
> submit such a significant contribution.

Are things like this subject to copyright?
Isn't this just a collection of facts?

bug#23822: Request to add Probhat layout for Bengali in emacs.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: uroybd@gmail.com,  23822@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 13:12:12 -0400
> 
> > Thanks, but we need someone with copyright assignment on file to
> > submit such a significant contribution.
> 
> Are things like this subject to copyright?
> Isn't this just a collection of facts?

IANAL.  And the OP agreed to sign, I sent the form off-list.

bug#23822: Request to add Probhat layout for Bengali in emacs.

[Richard Stallman]

[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

  > >> These are the codes I added to my configuration file to define my
  > >> own Probhat layout:
  > >
  > > Thanks, but we need someone with copyright assignment on file to
  > > submit such a significant contribution.

  > Are things like this subject to copyright?
  > Isn't this just a collection of facts?

If it just describes the facts of the keyboard layout,
then it should be noncopyrightable in the US.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.

bug#23822: Request to add Probhat layout for Bengali in emacs.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> CC: eliz@gnu.org, uroybd@gmail.com, 23822@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 19:35:08 -0400
> 
> If it just describes the facts of the keyboard layout,
> then it should be noncopyrightable in the US.

Does "noncopyrightable in the US" mean we can accept it into Emacs
without copyright assignment?

bug#23822: Request to add Probhat layout for Bengali in emacs.

[Richard Stallman]

[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

  > Does "noncopyrightable in the US" mean we can accept it into Emacs
  > without copyright assignment?

Yes, because Emacs is published in the US.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.

bug#23822: Request to add Probhat layout for Bengali in emacs.

[উৎসব রায়]

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That means I don't have to sign forms and send them by snail-mail. Right?

On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
>   > Does "noncopyrightable in the US" mean we can accept it into Emacs
>   > without copyright assignment?
>
> Yes, because Emacs is published in the US.
>
> --
> Dr Richard Stallman
> President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
> Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
> Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.
>
>

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bug#23822: Request to add Probhat layout for Bengali in emacs.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: উৎসব রায় <uroybd@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2016 11:03:53 +0600
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, rgm@gnu.org, 23822@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> That means I don't have to sign forms and send them by snail-mail. Right?

Not for this submission, no.  However, I'd still encourage you to
proceed with the legal paperwork, so that you could contribute in the
future.  Thanks.

I pushed the new input method to the emacs-25 branch.  Please take a
look at the final result, because I needed to make a few changes
before it compiled successfully.

bug#23822: Request to add Probhat layout for Bengali in emacs.

[উৎসব রায়]

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Okay, I will do that. :)

Please, replace quail-define-package expression with this one:

(quail-define-package
 "Probhat" "Bengali" "bengali-probhat" t
 "Probhat for Bangla" nil t nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil t)

Former one had a spelling mistake, that is a point. But, the most crucial
point is other Bengali layouts are defined with 'bengali-' prefix. People
will expect the same with this one also. So the title should be
bengali-probhat.

On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 10:30 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: উৎসব রায় <uroybd@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2016 11:03:53 +0600
> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, rgm@gnu.org, 23822@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > That means I don't have to sign forms and send them by snail-mail. Right?
>
> Not for this submission, no.  However, I'd still encourage you to
> proceed with the legal paperwork, so that you could contribute in the
> future.  Thanks.
>
> I pushed the new input method to the emacs-25 branch.  Please take a
> look at the final result, because I needed to make a few changes
> before it compiled successfully.
>

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bug#23822: Request to add Probhat layout for Bengali in emacs.

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> I pushed the new input method to the emacs-25 branch.  Please take a
> look at the final result, because I needed to make a few changes
> before it compiled successfully.

That was three years ago, so I'm guessing that the result was
satisfactory, and I'm closing this bug report.

-- 
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bug#23822: Request to add Probhat layout for Bengali in emacs.

[Stefan Kangas]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> I pushed the new input method to the emacs-25 branch.  Please take a
>> look at the final result, because I needed to make a few changes
>> before it compiled successfully.
>
> That was three years ago, so I'm guessing that the result was
> satisfactory, and I'm closing this bug report.

This was never closed, so I'm closing it now.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas