Hi,
Just for your reference, here is a young intelectual Iranian lawyer who is a computer engineer as well. He is an expert in software copyright issues. You can perhaps send your questions as an email to him. I know he is very receptive. Arshia Tabrizi
Peyman
Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just my last words:
* Like Mr Khanban, as I wrote in my long report before, I checked
it with the one-volume Aryanpur dictionary and all 20 entries I
checked matched perfectly.
* Even if people have changed 90% of it, the rest 10% is
copyrighted by Aryanpurs. Copyright holders accumulate, not
replaced.
* Every individual is responsible to make sure he's not
infringing anyone's copyright. In other words, you are
responsible to check the software you are handed in is done so
legally.
* No I'm not joining the joy in sharing the Aryanpur dictionary.
Thanks
behdad
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Ali A Khanban wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just repeat an old story again. I don't want to prove or disprove or
> claim anything.
>
> About ten years ago, there was a dictionary in DOS environme! nt written
> by Bahman Sabouri (if I recall correctly) with a database claimed to be
> based on Aryanpour dictionary. I can accpet that claim because I checked
> many of its entries against a one-volume Aryanpour dictionary and it
> seemed to be the right source (One-volume Aryanpour dictionary by
> AmirKabir publishing co.). It has the ability to add words to the
> database. By the time I had that copy of the software, the database had
> some extra words added by previous users. I decoded the database and
> created a text file. Then I started to modify it and correct mis-spelled
> words and typos and anything I thought must be changed. I didn't intend
> to do anything with it at the time. I did it just out of curiosity and
> challenge. Masood Hashemi was and is a friend of mine and was our FoxPro
> master in the department. We decided to use that data for a FoxPro
> dictionary and he did the job. Be! cause I was the one who somehow had
> provided the data and he was the programmer, both of our names were in
> the program as the authors. I saw a copy of that program a few years ago
> in Shiraz, in one of my visits to Shiraz medical university.
>
> Now, if we accept that the data in Masood Hashemi's online dictionary is
> the same data, which is a strong guess, then by this short history you
> know exactly how that was provided. I should add that at the time of
> that DOS software, we were not aware of any possible copy right on this
> data, as I believe neither was the original author. Or maybe the fact
> was that no one cared about it, even AmirKabir publishing co. who was
> the Aryanpour publisher. I am not sure, anyway.
>
> Best
> -ali-
>
> Pedram Safari wrote:
>
> >
> >In any case, I would like to testify again that the "program" is written
> >by M! asood Hashemi, so there is no copyright infringement if his share in
> >this work, and his willingness to make it available to the public, is
> >acknowledged and appreciated. There has been no official claim yet by
> >anyone on the source of the "database" (I think Majid Khanban said that he supervised a project by Masood Hashemi and someone else from which this database came out, but he couldn't recall the name of the other person, am I right, Majid?). Neither any official claim by anyone on the dictionary "content", unless you, Behdad, are Aryanpours' official attorney.
> >
> >As I had promised before, I would give appropriate credits in my
> >dictionary page to the person who could produce convincing proof of
> >his/her involvement in that project.
> >
> >
>
>
--behdad
behdad.org
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