Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Brian Nelson wrote: > >> I'm working on packaging the new upstream GNU/aspell, and I've >> discovered a problem with the (attached) license of the English >> dictionary. The license, which is a mishmash of mostly free licenses,is >> not DFSG free as I understand it due to the DEC Word list license >> (beginning on line 134). > > RMS said the word lists were OK. Here is what he said to me. You can > email him for confirmation: > > I think it is safe for us to use those wordlists. The person who > avoided texts marked "copyright" was operating under an erroneous idea > of how copyright law works, but if all he did with those texts was make > word lists, this should not be a problem anyway.
If these wordlists have been deemed free for any use, then the copyright should be changed. To me, a license that states, "To the best of my knowledge, all the files I used to build these wordlists were available for public distribution and use, at least for non-commercial purposes," isn't a really license at all since it doesn't grant a user any clear rights. IANAL, of course. -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! _______________________________________________ Aspell-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-devel
