Re: Aspell-en's questionable license

2002-11-06 Thread Richard Stallman
I've been discussing this with the FSF's outside counsel, Dan Ravicher. I have some ideas for how to generate a new word-list if we do end up needing one, but I don't want to discuss them until I've talked with a lawyer. It looks like this license applies only to one of the word

Re: Aspell-en's questionable license

2002-11-05 Thread David Turner
I've been discussing this with the FSF's outside counsel, Dan Ravicher. I have some ideas for how to generate a new word-list if we do end up needing one, but I don't want to discuss them until I've talked with a lawyer. I'll probably get some sort of final answer with Dan tomorrow at the GPL

Aspell-en's questionable license

2002-11-04 Thread Brian Nelson
Richard, It has come to the attention of debian-legal that the aspell-en package is licensed under questionable terms. In particular, aspell-en uses the DEC Word List, which contains the following notice: (NON-)COPYRIGHT STATUS To the best of my knowledge, all the files I used to build