Re: Dictionaries on the web

2004-03-03 Thread Ebadat A.R.
I mentioned before that we have a license agreement with our users . Upon to this agreement, we didn't sell anything to our users, instead we got our user to use our package (software with data) in single machine (personally). If you want I can send you our license agreement. > > Buying a > > s

Re: Long Live Owen Taylor

2004-03-03 Thread Masuod
Now we can stop using KEdit and other ugly KDE applications(dont flame me if you are a KDE advoacte). hope to see more improvements. Masoud --- Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear friends, > > This is my pleasure to share with you my feelings > about the > patches that Owen has app

Re: Dictionaries on the web

2004-03-03 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Ebadat A.R. wrote: > Hi, > I think putting Dictionaries on the web needs a special license . Buying a > software means you are getting license to use this software as it is. There > is no license for presenting this software on the web. If you want to use > software in another

Re: Dictionaries on the web

2004-03-03 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 09:53, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > I just want to note that simply putting an online dictionary > > service on the web does not need any permission from the > > copyright holder of the dictionary data. > > I can neither confirm or

Re: Dictionaries on the web

2004-03-03 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 12:32, Ebadat A.R. wrote: > Hi, > I think putting Dictionaries on the web needs a special license . What about putting dictionaries in a public library? Is this not the same issue? What is the difference between a physical copy in a very crowded libary and a web service? I a

Re: Long Live Owen Taylor

2004-03-03 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, C Bobroff wrote: > On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > * Pango can correctly render Arabic harakats > > Behdad, > You're talking about Arabic here so that's fine but don't forget when > testing Persian, you should test with presence of lots of ZWNJ's. The > presenc

Re: Long Live Owen Taylor

2004-03-03 Thread C Bobroff
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > * Pango can correctly render Arabic harakats Behdad, You're talking about Arabic here so that's fine but don't forget when testing Persian, you should test with presence of lots of ZWNJ's. The presence of ZWNJ seems to cause the browser to not be

Re: Dictionaries on the web

2004-03-03 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 09:53, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > I just want to note that simply putting an online dictionary > service on the web does not need any permission from the > copyright holder of the dictionary data. I can neither confirm or deny that. It *depends*. What if someone puts the whole

Re: AR-EN Morphoanalytical Dictionary

2004-03-03 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
> And I > only forwarded it to the list because he has insulted Iranian > people in general, [putting on my list admin hat] An email being insultive is a good reason NOT to forward to the list, not a good reason to send it to our more than 200 readers and the many who will see it later on Google.

Long Live Owen Taylor

2004-03-03 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Dear friends, This is my pleasure to share with you my feelings about the patches that Owen has applied to pango CVS in the recent days. Among many other great patches are two patches of special interest of Arabeyes and PersianComputing communities: Bug #70451 Automatic paragraph direction accor

Re: Dictionaries on the web

2004-03-03 Thread Ebadat A.R.
Hi, I think putting Dictionaries on the web needs a special license . Buying a software means you are getting license to use this software as it is. There is no license for presenting this software on the web. If you want to use software in another program or another location you have to get specia