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Wiktionary carries pronunciation for 45,000 of these headwords and the build was throwing it away. It is now kept: 101,306 entries of IPA, each tagged with the variety it belongs to, which matters here because a word in a 14th-century ghazal was not said the way Tehran says it now — عشق is /ˈʔiʃq/ in Classical Persian and [ʔeʃɢ̥] in Iran today, and the app leads with the former. The IPA's dots and stress marks are the syllable breakdown. Urdu Wiktionary adds its own, in Urdu script: the fully vowelled spelling عِشْق and the split عِش + قوں, both pulled out of its wikitext. Costs 7.7 MB of database, taking it to 94 MB. Verified on an API 36 emulator: tapping عشق shows the Classical Persian IPA, the Urdu syllable split, the vowelled spelling and two modern variants above the definitions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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| OFL-Libron.txt | ||
| OFL-NotoNaskhArabic.txt | ||
| OFL-NotoNastaliqUrdu.txt | ||
| README.md | ||
Licences
Everything this app is built from, and the terms it comes under. The app itself is MIT; see
../LICENSE.
The full text of each licence below also ships inside the APK, under
assets/licenses/, and is readable in the app at Reading settings → About & licences. The
SIL Open Font License requires the licence to travel with the software, so the font licences are
bundled rather than merely linked.
Content
| What | Source | Terms |
|---|---|---|
| The poems | ganjoor.net | Classical Persian verse, long out of copyright |
| The data export | ganjoor-data | No licence file. Worth asking upstream to add one |
| Poem search, first lines | api.ganjoor.net |
A public web service. Its implementation, GanjoorService, is GPL-3.0 — this app uses none of that code, only data over HTTPS, so it is not a derivative work |
| AI summaries | Ganjoor's own feature, shown only when enabled | Labelled in the app as AI-generated |
Nothing in Ganjoor's repositories restricts AI-assisted use.
Dictionary
Five sources, each row in the database tagged with the one it came from so the app can name it and so any of them can be dropped without rebuilding the others.
| Source | Direction | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Wiktionary | Persian → English | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Wiktionary | Urdu → English | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Urdu Wiktionary | Urdu → Urdu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Wiktionary | Arabic → English | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Daneshjoo | Persian → English | Repository states MIT |
Pronunciation — IPA with the variety it belongs to, and Urdu Wiktionary's vowelled spelling and syllable split — comes from the same Wiktionary exports and carries the same licence.
Because four of the five are CC BY-SA 3.0, the generated dictionary.db is CC BY-SA 3.0.
Attribution is shown in the app beside every definition. See ../tools/README.md
to rebuild it.
The Daneshjoo entry is worth a caveat: the repository states MIT, but the underlying lexicon is a published Iranian dictionary, so that relicensing is worth verifying before relying on it.
Fonts
| Font | Copyright | Licence | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| Noto Naskh Arabic | The Noto Project Authors | SIL OFL 1.1 | OFL-NotoNaskhArabic.txt |
| Noto Nastaliq Urdu | The Noto Project Authors | SIL OFL 1.1 | OFL-NotoNastaliqUrdu.txt |
| Libron | Nico Verbruggen, after Readerly and Newsreader (Production Type) | SIL OFL 1.1 | OFL-Libron.txt |
Libraries
Every dependency is Apache-2.0. The full text is in
../app/src/main/assets/licenses/apache-2.0.txt.
| Library | Copyright |
|---|---|
| Jetpack Compose, AndroidX (core, activity, lifecycle, navigation) | The Android Open Source Project |
| Material Components / Material icons | The Android Open Source Project |
| Accompanist (drawablepainter, pulled in by Coil) | The Android Open Source Project |
| Kotlin standard library, kotlinx.serialization, kotlinx.coroutines | JetBrains |
| OkHttp, Okio | Square, Inc. |
| Coil 3 | Coil Contributors |
No Google Play Services, Firebase, analytics or tracking of any kind. The only Android
permission requested is INTERNET.
Artwork
The launcher icon — an eight-point shamsa — is original work for this project, MIT like the rest of the code. Ganjoor's own app icons are unlicensed and are their mark; they are not used here.
Poet portraits
Fetched at runtime from api.ganjoor.net. They are Ganjoor's own illustrations of
long-dead poets, displayed as served and never redistributed in the APK.