Authors

• Benoit Cerrina

Special Thanks (not in order of importance)

• Lars Grunewaldt: creator of padict. For the inspiration, no code from padict has been used, but the author is none the less grateful for the feedback and contributions of padict’s users and contributors.
• Matthew J. Francis: creator of the taka project
• Chris Stassen: for contributing many animations to the taka database
• Jim Breen: for the creation and support of the edict and kanjidic2 dictionary
  

License

• Copyright © 2008 Benoit Cerrina.

Licensing Notes

• taka

ShinKanji contains data from the taka database project. The following license notices
apply to this package:

The MIT License:
Copyright (c) 2002-2004 M. Francis and others. See Authors for full credits

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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• kanjidic2

This package uses the KANJIDIC2 dictionary file. These file is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and are used in conformance with the Group’s licence.

• Zinnia

This package uses modified versions of the zinnia software

Copyright (c) 2008, Taku Kudo All right reserved

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