Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of ZEDICT: Zaurus English-Japanese Dictiona - savannah.gnu.org

[Loic Dachary]

Erwan Loisant writes:
 > Loic Dachary wrote:
 > >    Hi,
 > > 
 > >    The dictionary license is not Free Software (commercial use 
 > > restrictions, distribution restrictions and various others) and cannot
 > > be hosted on Savannah. Could you please get in touch with people publishing
 > > this dictionary and convince them it would be beneficial to the world if
 > > they publish it under a Free Software / Free Documentation license ?
 > 
 > 
 > He already published it under GPL a few years ago but for some reasons 
 > he changed hes mind ; so he knows well about GPL and he must have good 
 > reasons to have changed hes mind.

        I doubt these are good reasons but you're right that it is
unlikely he will change his mind.

 > If you don't mind I will host only the software at Savannah and tell my 
 > users to get the dictionary file from an other source, or find an other 
 > dictonary of the same format.

        The problem now is that your software depends on non-free data.
Does it support other dictionaries or is it only useful with these non
free dictionaries ? 

        Cheers,

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