Thread: Advanced text entry on Sailfish (Swype or similar)
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bluefoot is offline bluefoot
2014-09-19 , 23:03
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Originally Posted by eber42 View Post
I've took a few days off so i was not responding.

Just to be clear: the application shown in a video was a simple POC which failed in many simple real life situations and had a lot of performance issues (I know how to fix them, but it takes time, and it has already improved a lot since then).

I've got a lot of requests to just "leak" the code (or even more creative ideas). This would result in an unusable product out, and sorry users with crashed phones. IMO this is a very counterproductive solution (and I won't answer the related remaining PMs in my Inbox).

In the meantime i'm improving the code and working on options for release, so please be patient



PS: I did a query on my typing analysis code and prediction database and i've got good separation between "fellation" and "demain", but i'll probably add them to my test cases
Missed this when you released the original video. Good luck and take your time.

Whilst I'm not a patent lawyer, I'm pretty certain that everywhere outside the US, if you're not using Swype's code, there's no possible way for you to get in trouble, even if you're selling it. As far as the idea of swiping to type infringing on patents ... Swiftkey use this too, and AFAIK they have no patent licensing agreement with Swype. They profit from the app, and there has been no legal action. Also, despite being a UK company, they have an office in San Francisco, and it's now available for iOS as well as Android. I'd say if there was a problem, we'd know about it.

I think you're absolutely fine to carry on, and even profit from it once Jolla finally have a paid for app store, as long as you haven't 'borrowed' any proprietary code and can demonstrate that your code is original or the bits of it that aren't are openly available.

P.S. Swiftkey is top of the free (paid themes) iOS app charts currently, residing at #1.
Last edited by bluefoot; 2014-09-19 at 23:12.