Please confirm it asap. My guess is that SO works with BSD-old. > 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
I think the better way is to remedy the original license with the autor Geoff Kuenning if the licese is still BSD-old. OK, it looks better to install en_US.aff at the moment from your request. But please note l10n cannot have the responsibility for the caused result. Thanks, fujiwara Harry Lu wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 18:32 +0900, Takao Fujiwara wrote: > 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 >> > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: en_US.zip Type: application/zip Size: 247657 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/jds-review/attachments/20070502/51629f01/attachment.bin>
