As for the http://www.parstranslator.net/ site, I could not get it to work!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.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 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. Regards, Pars Translator Group, Ebadat A.R. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Behdad Esfahbod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Persian Computing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 2004/03/03 09:53 AM Subject: Dictionaries on the webLong boring thread again. I just want to note that simply putting an online dictionary service on the web does not need any permission from the copyright holder of the dictionary data. So for example I can buy an Aryanpour dictionary, extract the data, and write a web program that you can query the meaning of a particular word, and it would return to you the meaning. The important point here is that, for this to be legal: * You should have obtained your copy of the information legally, eg. bought the CD. * You should not redistribute the data, eg. no "download dictionary here". Last but not least, IANAL (I Am Not A Lawyer). behdad PS. I know at least one online dictionary service that is claiming to be legal in this way. They do not service to the public still because they are not sure about the validity of the above argument. _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing_______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
Now, that we are talking about licensing and authorship etc, I am very much curious to know where have you got your translations and definitions for your products from. I sincerely doubt that you have done it all by yourself, so my guess is that you have copied, if not exactly, from other resources, Aryanpour, etc. If so, how have you handled the copyright then?
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