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[Savannah-register-public] Re: Fwd: [task #7815] Submission of Chinese A


From: Sylvain Beucler
Subject: [Savannah-register-public] Re: Fwd: [task #7815] Submission of Chinese Administrative Division tcl/tk Selector
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:58:14 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14)

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 09:47:32PM +0200, Alexander Shulgin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Given the package author's claims are valid, basing on common sense
> and after a not so quick web search I think there is potentially no
> danger in distributing the area code database along with the package.
> 
> Can we approve this project now? :-)

Yep :)

-- 
Sylvain

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Zhang Weiwu <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 7:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [task #7815] Submission of Chinese Administrative
> Division tcl/tk Selector
> To: Alexander Shulgin <address@hidden>
> Cc: Alexander Shulgin <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> 
> Alexander Shulgin 写道:
> 
> > Follow-up Comment #1, task #7815 (project administration):
>  >
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > Could you please clarify if area code database you included into your 
> package
>  > is in the public domain or is copyrighted by the Chinese government, and if
>  > so, what are the copying conditions?  In any case a URL would be helpful--I
>  > couldn't find this on the web myself...
>  >
>  Hi.
> 
>  The area code is released as a governmental standard to be used by all
>  activities in regarding to geographical area location. There are no
>  copyright information at all with this file, and I am pretty sure if I
>  ask them copyright information I will not get any answer because they
>  didn't develop copyright concepts there yet.
> 
>  Each province has a governmental organization "the Statistics Bureau"
>  which has the task to distribute this code to the public, forced to be
>  used in governmental related projects. In my package the example code is
>  from "Jiangxi province Statistics Bureau", and I downloaded it from here:
>  http://www.jxstj.gov.cn/tjzs/tjbz/200612270012.htm
> 
>  anyway since it's public-downloadable I assume it's usable. I could have
>  simply referred it as an URI in my package, but I know this URI will
>  change, many governmental website URIs change from year to year and
>  historical data are usually not maintained. I wouldn't suggest people
>  surf governmental websites at all because they tends to have higher
>  chance of malware there (government information centers, the special
>  server rooms run governmental websites, hires people mostly are
>  relatives of governmental officials and usually is the worst (in regard
>  to virus and malware) data center compare to all commercial data center
>  in the town)
> 
> > Also, there is no sign of reference to 'area_code.csv' in the
>  > select_locality.tcl file.  Probably this is by intent, but otherwise is 
> there
>  > a reason for including the database into the package?
>  >
>  Sorry, I simply forgot to mention 'area_code.csv' is the only
>  commandline parameter of the executable.
> 
> > --
>  > Cheers,
>  > Alex
>  >
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