On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 00:42, masouds wrote: > How hard is it to contact the copyright holder to release their data > and/or put it under GPL?
Bad news: * It's hard. It's very hard. Almost all publishers believe they have already done their "isaar" by going through all the trouble of publishing the book. Now they want their money. * So, you need to pay a lot. Good news: * There is a chance we can convince the High Council of Informatics of Iran to pay for that. That is being done for a spell-checking database. Why not for a dictionary? roozbeh _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing