Le lundi 30 janvier 2012 à 22:56 +0100, Claire Revillet a écrit : > Le 30/01/2012 22:50, Funda Wang a écrit : > > 2012/1/31 Claire Revillet<gren...@zarb.org>: > >> For me StarDict is a dead project and I was looking for a successor. > >> There is no information on the "copyright infringement" and the tarball > >> that > >> can be downloaded on the new site are exactly the same as the old ones ! > >> So the first possibility is: there was truly a copyright problem and there > >> is still (this may be proved in the future if the copyright owner ask to > >> close again the project) ; second possibility: there was no copyright > >> problem (but a more obscure one), but, still, the project is not very > >> active. > > I think there is no copyright problem with the stardict the program > > itself, only the data files (dictionaries). But the author has been > > missing for half a year: > > http://goldendict.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1109 > It's also what I think : no really copyright pb with the code (and yes, > I had seen link :\ ).
Unfortunately, that's not really the opinion of the sourceforge lawyers. I assume that since you didn't warn us of a problem during the 6 months that you at least took the initiative as a maintainer to contact sourceforge.net, and that you received a answer letting you safely to dismiss their analysis. So can you share the answer, and/or the analysis ? Because I think that if we have a special treatement for patents and DMCA despites having legal protections ( safe harbor laws in the USAs, for example ) for mirrors, we should at least be as vigilant for copyright violation when there is no such provision and much stricter laws ( per various treaty ), as we all know given the current events. -- Michael Scherer