Scripsit Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > However, this "license" contains the same questionable clause as the > aspell-en license:
> Therefore, it is safe to assume that the wordlists in this package > can also be freely copied, distributed, modified, and used for > personal, educational, and research purposes. (Use of these files in > commercial products may require written permission from DEC and/or > the authors of the original lists.) Now there's a real problem. > Well, the idea was that you glance at the word list, maybe remove a word > or two, and then copyright it for yourself. Should take no more than 5 > minutes. No, it doesn't work that way. It would still be freeriding on the original author's creative choice of which words to include in the original list. Likewise, a novel does not escape its author's copyright just because you strike out a couple of sentences at random. -- Henning Makholm "De er da bare dumme. Det skal du bare sige til dem."
