su, 2005-12-25 kello 01:50 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine kirjoitti: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "Martin-Éric Racine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Package name : ispell-et > Version : 20030606 > URL : http://www.meso.ee/~jjpp/speller/ > aspell-et - Estonian dictionary for aspell > iestonian - Estonian dictionary for ispell > myspell-et - Estonian dictionary for myspell > openoffice.org-hyphenation-et - Estonian hyphenation pattern for > OpenOffice.org > > The ispell affix and wordlists, as well as the OOo hyphenation were found as > standalone files at the above URL, along with explanations in Estonian about > the origin of all files. Everything else is generated by my own debian/rules. > > The version is the timestamp of the last update produced by Jaak Pruulmann. > > I already have packages ready to upload. I however need to verify whether the > software license of the Institute of the Estonian Language is considered free > according to Debian policies, before I proceed with the upload.
Copyright issues were found to be ambiguous by debian-legal, which prompted the original upstream to modify their license. Meanwhile, licenses of changes to the wordlist and of the hyphenation pattern required further clarification from their respective authors. The resulting copyright is: > This package was debianized by Martin-Eric Racine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on > Sat, 24 Dec 2005 03:23:47 +0200 > > It was downloaded from <http://www.meso.ee/~jjpp/speller/> > > Estonian affix and wordlist for Ispell > Copyright (C) 2003, Jaak Pruulmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it > under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by > the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at > your option) any later version. > > On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU Lesser General Public > License can be found in </usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL>. > > Estonian hyphenation patterns > Copyright (C) 2003, Enn Saar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the > LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3 of this license or (at > your option) any later version. The latest version of this license is in > <http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt> and version 1.3 or later is part > of all distributions of LaTeX version 2003/12/01 or later. > > On Debian systems, the complete text of the LaTeX Project Public License > can be found in </usr/share/doc/tetex-base/lppl.txt.gz>. > > Estonian Wordlist > Copyright (C) 1999, Institute of the Estonian Language <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The present Licence Agreement gives the user of this Software Product > (hereinafter: Product) the right to use the Product for whatever purpose > (incl. distribution, copying, altering, inclusion in other software, and > selling) on the following conditions: > > 1. The present Licence Agreement should belong unaltered to each copy > ever made of this Product; > 2. Neither the Institute of the Estonian Language (hereinafter: IEL) > nor the author(s) of the Product will take responsibility for any > detriment, direct or indirect, possibly ensuing from the application > of the Product; > 3. The IEL is ready to share the Product with other users as we wish > to advance research on the Estonian language and to promote the use > of Estonian in rapidly developing infotechnology, yet we refuse to > bind ourselves to any further obligation, which means that the IEL > is not obliged either to warrant the suitability of the Product for > a specific purpose, to improve the software, or to provide a more > detailed description of the underlying algorithms. > (Which does not mean, though, that we may not do it.) > > Notification Request: > > As a courtesy, we would appreciate being informed whenever our linguistic > products are used to create derivative works. If you modify our software > or include it in other products, please inform us by sending e-mail to > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or by letter to > > Institute of the Estonian Language > Roosikrantsi 6 > 10119 Tallinn > ESTONIA > > Phone & Fax: +372 6411443 > ---------- end of Licence Agreement ---------- Clarifications about the history of each file appears in README: > Estonian dictionaries for aspell, ispell, myspell > ------------------------------------------------- > This package was assembled from several standalone files found at > <http://www.meso.ee/~jjpp/speller/>: > > * Affix file and wordlist for ispell. > * Hyphenation pattern for OpenOffice. > > The wordlist is based on work by the Institute of the Estonian Language, > subsequently improved by Jaak Pruulmann who also created the affix file. > > The hyphenation pattern was originally created by Enn Saar for utilization > with LaTeX, then converted to the OpenOffice format by Jaak Pruulmann. > > Dictionaries for all three spellcheckers are generated for this package > using Debian packaging scripts created by Martin-Eric Racine. > > Wordlist improvement > -------------------- > Corrections to existing words and suggestions for new words are welcome. > Please send them to Jaak Pruulmann for inclusion in the next revision. > > Encoding issues > --------------- > All dictionaries are encoded in the ISO-8859-15 (Latin-9) character-set, > which is absolutely necessary to accommodate the plethora of foreign words > featuring S- and Z-caron that see daily usage in the Estonian language. > > Estonian users are invited to replace 'locales' with 'belocs-locales-data' > for generating an Estonian locale that correctly defaults to Latin-9. > > -- Martin-Éric Racine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 24 Dec 2005 03:23:47 +0200 The first changelog entry offers additional details: > ispell-et (20030606.1) unstable; urgency=low > > * Initial release (Closes: #344707). > * Created as native Debian package because upstream offers no tarball; > standalone spellchecker files were downloaded as-is then packaged. > * The major version number is the timestamp of the upstream files. > > -- Martin-Éric Racine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 24 Dec 2005 03:23:47 +0200 Basically, this package is ready and queued in NEW, waiting to be added to the Debian archive. The Ubuntu team has manifested great interest in including this package into their Dapper release (freeze starts on January 19) and would rather auto-build the package directly from Debian, if possible. -- Martin-Éric Racine http://q-funk.iki.fi
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