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Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of ZEDICT: Zaurus English-Japanese Dic
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Loic Dachary |
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Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of ZEDICT: Zaurus English-Japanese Dictiona - savannah.gnu.org |
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Thu, 29 Aug 2002 10:26:51 +0200 |
Erwan Loisant writes:
> Loic Dachary wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The dictionary license is not Free Software (commercial use
> > restrictions, distribution restrictions and various others) and cannot
> > be hosted on Savannah. Could you please get in touch with people publishing
> > this dictionary and convince them it would be beneficial to the world if
> > they publish it under a Free Software / Free Documentation license ?
>
>
> He already published it under GPL a few years ago but for some reasons
> he changed hes mind ; so he knows well about GPL and he must have good
> reasons to have changed hes mind.
I doubt these are good reasons but you're right that it is
unlikely he will change his mind.
> If you don't mind I will host only the software at Savannah and tell my
> users to get the dictionary file from an other source, or find an other
> dictonary of the same format.
The problem now is that your software depends on non-free data.
Does it support other dictionaries or is it only useful with these non
free dictionaries ?
Cheers,
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