On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 18:32 +0900, Takao Fujiwara wrote: > Beijing base team, > > I have a critical question regarding to this. > Currently the english dicts are integrated in SUNWthunderbird and > SUNWfirefox and I thought those legal reviews were done.
Takao, The original English dictionaries were delivered by mozilla base team. So Brian and Helen, could you please address this issue? I added some comments based on my understanding below. > > 1. Do you need en_US.aff? >From enchant's code and mozilla's code at http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/extensions/spellcheck/locales/en-US/myspell/ and http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/extensions/spellcheck/myspell/src/ , The answer should be YES. > 2. Do you have the proper legal review for English dictionary? As we have an executive summary that codes downloaded from mozilla.org and gnome.org won't need OSR, I guess we didn't do OSR for this particular issue before. There is no license file for en-US.aff under http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/extensions/spellcheck/locales/en-US/myspell/ and I cannot access http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries by webcache.uk, either. From the README file you provided below, I guess it is released under the original BSD license which might be a problem. If it has been changed to new BSD license, I think it should be OK. I am not a legal person, so I think either Helen or Brian should contact the original author Geoff Kuenning and the current author of en-US.aff to see what the license now is. They should also decide whether we need an OSR for it. I don't know if you remove en-US.aff now, whether enchant and thunderbird/firefox's spell-checking function still works. As this file has been in S10 and Nevada for a long time, and both the Mozilla community and the OpenOffice community are using it, maybe we can keep it for now and find a legal solution at the same time. Maybe we should ship the README file in the same directory, too. Thanks, Harry > > The README shows the license below. > > ---------- >8 ================ > 20040623 release. > -- > This dictionary is based on a subset of the original > English wordlist created by Kevin Atkinson for Pspell > and Aspell and thus is covered by his original > LGPL license. The affix file is a heavily modified > version of the original english.aff file which was > released as part of Geoff Kuenning's Ispell and as > such is covered by his BSD license. > > Thanks to both authors for their wonderful work. > ---------- >8 ================ > > The README seems to describe en_US.aff is generated from english.aff > and > it's under BSD license. > It looks like a critical problem. > > We cannot deliver BSD-old licensed files with GPL. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_License#UC_Berkeley_advertising_clause > > I also checked english.aff with: > http://search.cranfield.ac.uk/htdig/english.aff > > It explains that this software must display the acknowledgment: > # This product includes software developed by Geoff Kuenning and > # other unpaid contributors. > > > I'm afraid we cannot deliver en_US.aff. > > Thanks, > fujiwara >
