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The source code of Girgit is now freely available
The source code of a very popular transliteration tool that transliterate between online Indic to indic unicode script has been released under GPL. It was already available for the public to use it freely. It can be downloaded from here.
Since it is avilable under GPL-3.0 so now anybody can download it freely and the person can have the right to modify and distribute it but again the source code should be released under GPL.
Transliteration is the task of transcribing natural language text from one writing system to another. It was created by Vipul Jain and Alok Kumar. Around 14 thounsand users use this tool daily to transliterate into some other Indic text from one Indic text. The oringinal girgit was written in Javascript in 2005. It was hosted at Devanaagrii.net. Around one and half years before Vipul wrote entirely new code in php. Now it is available in nine Indic langauge Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, and Oriya. Now it is able to transliterate in English.
Girgit Blog: http://blog.girgit.chitthajagat.in/
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