Jan Jeroným Zvánovec <j...@zvano.net>:

> thanks for your bugreport. I did not know about this web. Personally, I think
> it would be appropriate to first let the aspell maintainer know about it so he
> can update the version on the official aspell web pages:
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/hsb/

It would probably be a good idea to contact prof. Werner (who is both
the upstream author and the packager of the current aspell dictionary)
before submitting a newer version.

> I would not mind doing so myself, but unfortunately, there is not any license
> present either directly on the web pages you linked, or in the zip file with
> the dictionary data:
> http://www.uni-leipzig.de/%7Esorb/seiten/hsb/02/hsb_DE.zip
>
> Could you ask the maintainer of said web pages to publish a version with
> license? Alternatively: do you have his e-mail address (which is also not
> mentioned on the web pages)?

Sadly, I do not know who maintains these pages. The address of the
Institute, as well as of prof. Werner, is however published at:

http://uni-leipzig.de/~sorb/

> I assume the dictionary is intended to be GPL2+, but assuming is not
> sufficient in our case.

The same dictionary is distributed by Mozilla, with attribution and
licensing notices:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3956



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