On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Ebadat A.R. wrote: > Hi, > I think putting Dictionaries on the web needs a special license . Buying a > software means you are getting license to use this software as it is. There > is no license for presenting this software on the web. If you want to use > software in another program or another location you have to get special > license for new location.
No. It all comes than to the EULA (End-User License Agreement) of the software. If there is no EULA, then as you have *bought* the software, you can do whatever you want with it, as it's your property. But EULAs generally state that you have not bought the software, but the permission to use it in this and that way. I have seen in EULA of many international software things like you are only allowed to run this software on this operating system, and for this usage. You are NOT allowed to extract data from it or use the data provided in this software in this or that way... Last time I bought a dictionary CD in Tehran, I checked and the EULA had no clause about not extracting the data and use in other applications. And Roozbeh has already answered the question that Web is different or not. I say not. Consider this scenarios: - I have a library. I provide the service that you call me, ask for the meaning of a word, and I look up the meaning in a few dictionaries I have in the library, and answer you back. - Now, with the advances in technology, you can simply send me an SMS other my cell phone and I would reply back with the meaning of the word you asked for. - Later I spend more and develop an automated system that on receiving an SMS, it would look up the meaning in dictionaries that I have bought in form of CD and replies back with the meanings. - Now I connect my system to internet and provide the same service on Yahoo! Messenger and over Email. - Finally I run a web server and provide the dictionaries in a web application. So, which of these I'm allowed to do and which not? If you agree that I'm allowed to do the first one, the you either you should agree that I'm allowed to do them all, or there is one of the scenarios you believed it allowed, following by another scenario that you believe I'm not allowed to do. As you can see the difference between adjacent scenarios is so small that you can hardly allow one and disallow the other. > We are working on Machine Translation system (Pars Translator > http://www.ParsTranslator.Net ) and our customers have no license to put > this software on the web as we mentioned in License Agreement before. As I So you have mentioned that they are not allowed to do that. > saw in many software (specially dictionaries) , there is no license to put > the dictionary on the web. Let me know if you have any Dictionary software > with license for putting data on the web. I would ask someone (Behnam, please?) to type and send us the EULA of Bateni and AryanPour CDs available in Tehran. behdad > Regards, > Pars Translator Group, > Ebadat A.R. _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
