On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 22:06 +0900, Takao Fujiwara wrote: > Please confirm it asap. > My guess is that SO works with BSD-old.
I have no idea :( > > > OK. I am not a legal person, so I think either Helen or Brian should > > contact the original author Geoff Kuenning and the current author of > > en-US.aff to see what the license now is. They should also decide > > I think the better way is to remedy the original license with the autor > Geoff Kuenning if the licese is still BSD-old. Yeah, I agree. Changing it to BSD-new looks a good solution. As Helen and Brian are in Chinese holidays until May, 7, they can begin to work on this when they come back to work. > > OK, it looks better to install en_US.aff at the moment from your > request. But please note l10n cannot have the responsibility for the > caused result. Sure, I know. That file has been in S10 and Nevada for a long time. The mozilla base team should be responsible for it. At this time, could you ship the README file together with en_US.aff? This will make us look better, I guess. Thanks, Harry > > Thanks, > fujiwara > > Harry Lu wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 18:32 +0900, Takao Fujiwara wrote: > > The original English dictionaries were delivered by mozilla base team. > > So Brian and Helen, could you please address this issue? I added some > > comments based on my understanding below. > > > >> 1. Do you need en_US.aff? > > > >>From enchant's code and mozilla's code at > > http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/extensions/spellcheck/locales/en-US/myspell/ > > and > > http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/extensions/spellcheck/myspell/src/ , > > > > The answer should be YES. > > > >> 2. Do you have the proper legal review for English dictionary? > > > > As we have an executive summary that codes downloaded from mozilla.org > > and gnome.org won't need OSR, I guess we didn't do OSR for this > > particular issue before. > > > > There is no license file for en-US.aff under > > http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/extensions/spellcheck/locales/en-US/myspell/ > > > > and I cannot access > > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries > > by webcache.uk, either. From the README file you provided below, I > > guess it is released under the original BSD license which might be a > > problem. If it has been changed to new BSD license, I think it should be > > OK. I am not a legal person, so I think either Helen or Brian should > > contact the original author Geoff Kuenning and the current author of > > en-US.aff to see what the license now is. They should also decide > > whether we need an OSR for it. > > > > I don't know if you remove en-US.aff now, whether enchant and > > thunderbird/firefox's spell-checking function still works. As this file > > has been in S10 and Nevada for a long time, and both the Mozilla > > community and the OpenOffice community are using it, maybe we can keep > > it for now and find a legal solution at the same time. Maybe we should > > ship the README file in the same directory, too. > > > > Thanks, > > Harry > > > > > >> The README shows the license below. > >> > >> ---------- >8 ================ > >> 20040623 release. > >> -- > >> This dictionary is based on a subset of the original > >> English wordlist created by Kevin Atkinson for Pspell > >> and Aspell and thus is covered by his original > >> LGPL license. The affix file is a heavily modified > >> version of the original english.aff file which was > >> released as part of Geoff Kuenning's Ispell and as > >> such is covered by his BSD license. > >> > >> Thanks to both authors for their wonderful work. > >> ---------- >8 ================ > >> > >> The README seems to describe en_US.aff is generated from english.aff > >> and > >> it's under BSD license. > >> It looks like a critical problem. > >> > >> We cannot deliver BSD-old licensed files with GPL. > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_License#UC_Berkeley_advertising_clause > >> > >> I also checked english.aff with: > >> http://search.cranfield.ac.uk/htdig/english.aff > >> > >> It explains that this software must display the acknowledgment: > >> # This product includes software developed by Geoff Kuenning and > >> # other unpaid contributors. > >> > >> > >> I'm afraid we cannot deliver en_US.aff. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> fujiwara > >> > > >
