Thanks Peter for checking them. Do you have any idea about these ones:
http://www.popdic.com/dict_farsi.htm English-Farsi Entries: 52 195 Editor: Linguasoft Download link: eng-farsi.zip (~3 697 Kb). Hits: 680 Farsi-English Entries: 44 908 Editor: Linguasoft Download link: farsi-eng.zip (~2 363 Kb). Hits: 603 behdad On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Linguasoft wrote: > Dear Behdad: > > You replied to me personally, so allow me to forward your message (below) to > the list as your question was apparently directed to all list members. > > The interesting thing with www.babylon.com/... is that some of these Persian > dictionaries carry a copyright message, while others, specifically those > that use the name Aryanpur, do not. According to the introductory message, > the latter have been >>Presented by: Network and Information Center (NIC) of > the university of Isfahan. web site: www.ui.ac.ir [...]<< What does this > mean? Presented by whom? The lawful owners of the dictionary contents and of > the data? Presented to whom? To the "Public Domain"? This hypothesis seems > to be supported by the fact that www.babylon.com/gloss/glossaries.html > speaks of "Free Public Glossaries", but this goes of course with the implied > assumption that the people who "presented" these data has the legal capacity > to do so. > > Lastly, does anyone know if an Aryanpur printed or electronic version has > ever been [re-]published in one of the signatory states of the Universal > Copyright Convention*, carrying an appropriate copyright message? Proving > this would be the only chance, IMO, to protect the original authors' rights > in the international theater. > > Best regards, > > Peter > > > *) see http://www.unesco.org/culture/laws/copyright/html_eng/state1952.shtml > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Behdad Esfahbod [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 10:25 PM > To: Linguasoft > Subject: Re: English<>Persian electronic dictionaries > > > The one that claims to be Aryanpur is almost what we have, based > on the number of entries. I don't know about the others, nor can > I check. Would one please download and have a look. The big > one, with 250000 entries(!!), is it the multi-volume Aryanpur? > > behdad > > On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Linguasoft wrote: > > > In an attempt to broaden our current discussion: > > > > Does anyone know about the legal status of the dictionaries > > offered for free download on the following site: > > > > > http://info.babylon.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?layout=sr_new.html&cat=21&sort=&n > > c=2&n=10 > > > > The company offering them is identified at > > > > http://www.babylon.com/display.php?id=44&tree=7&level=2 > > > > (the German address is only a branch office, AFAIK). > > > > Best regards, > > > > Peter > > > --behdad behdad.org _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
