iranian distribution of Zotero (pajoohyar)

drattar

there is an Iranian distribution of Zotero named pajoohyar, and they sell it by about 10$ for each license!
https://www.pajoohyar.com/

they Claim making some changes for Arabic, Persian citation style, that may useful to other Zotero users using this languages.

* note 1: zotero web site doesn't work in Iran directly! and i use VPN to browse it, is there some limitation to Iranian users?

drattar

there is short release note in Persian
https://www.pajoohyar.com/fa/release-note,
may i translate it if it interested to developers.

adamsmith

I'd be very surprised if Zotero blocked anyone; I assume that's your government/ISP.

From a legal point of view, what they're doing is a bit sketchy--while you are allowed to sell Zotero derivatives, you're supposed to release the code under an equivalent license. But I doubt anyone is going to raise much of a fuss about this unless they're trying to sell in the US or Europe ;).

drattar

as Arabic, Persian, ... user
most important feature is replace (,) with the right to left one (،)
(;) with (؛)


we do this manually for each reference

dstillman

attarfar: Can you give an example? We can't do anything about the blocking, unfortunately, but we can certainly try to fix any usability issues in Zotero proper that are affecting Iranian users.

dstillman

Oh, looks like you followed up on that issue in this thread:

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/46121/