Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Glenn Maynard wrote: > >> On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 03:23:45PM -0400, Kevin Atkinson wrote: >> > I am merely quoting the closest thing to a copyright notice for all of the >> > wordlist as generally required by copyright law. RMS basically said the >> > word list meets FSF definition of Free (which should in term meet Debian >> > guidelines). >> >> Meeting the FSF's definition of "free" does not always imply meeting >> Debian's definition of "free", although they usually coincide. >> >> > That should be all that you need to know. >> >> Even if it was true, it still wouldn't necessarily be sufficient to >> *convince* him (and d-legal) that it's correct. > > RMS gave me the all clear to use it in what is now an official GNU program > so that as all that I need. If you need more I suggest you talk to RMS > about it. I can remove that word list from my source list but I rather > not. RMS is pretty anneal about these things, please don't tell me that > d-legal is more anneal than RMS because I didn't think that would be > possible.
Famous last words. :) The wordlists may very be free enough to distribute in Debian, but I don't think their license adequately asserts that freedom. I'm hoping someone jumps in here and verifies this one way or the other. -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! _______________________________________________ Aspell-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-devel
