Hello all, I came across an offline dictionary application for Android that uses Wiktionary as it's source. The name of the application is "English Dictionary - Offline". The developer provides dictionaries in other languages too. Unfortunately it is not a free software as the source of the application is not available and it's not licensed under a free software license.
I thought it would be nice to try to liberate the application as it would be easy to port it to other languages and further it would give it's users, freedom! As I'm not experienced with this, I would like to hear suggestion about how to contact the developer about liberating the application. A rough draft of the mail I could think of (with the help of template to convince your friend) for liberating the application could be found below, ====== Dear developer, The "English Dictionary - Offline" is a great application and is doing a great job in helping users to search meanings of words easily. It's good to see the application available in multiple languages. It would have been better if it were "Free software" [1]. That would help others to easily port the application to other languages and might also help in increasing your dictionary's popularity. As you may already be aware, releasing your program as Free Software doesn't mean you won't make money on it. You are free to charge whatever you want for Free Software as long as you provide users with access to the application's source code so that they may improve and share "English Dictionary - Offline" with their friends. Thank you for your time and effort. I look forward to hearing back from you :) and to see "English Dictionary - Offline" and it's counterparts in other languages in F-droid [2] soon. Links ===== [1] : https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software [2] : https://f-droid.org/ Sincerely, Kaartic Sivaraam ====== Please send in your valuable thoughts and suggestions about liberating the application. Thanks in advance. -- Regards, Kaartic _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
