Sure. These are raw data that I received from Iran on a diskette, and converted into Unicode (plus some more editing work). As no copyright message was given alongside with the original data, there was no reason to assume that usage should infringe any third party's rights.
The release of these dictionaries was also announced publicly, via the predecessor of this list, in order to make sure that there is no infringement of which I was not aware. I haven't received any reaction so far to this extent. Peter -----Original Message----- From: Behdad Esfahbod [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 11:42 AM To: Linguasoft Cc: 'Persian Computing List' Subject: RE: English<>Persian electronic dictionaries Thanks Peter for checking them. Do you have any idea about these ones: http://www.popdic.com/dict_farsi.htm English-Farsi Entries: 52 195 Editor: Linguasoft Download link: eng-farsi.zip (~3 697 Kb). Hits: 680 Farsi-English Entries: 44 908 Editor: Linguasoft Download link: farsi-eng.zip (~2 363 Kb). Hits: 603 behdad On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Linguasoft wrote: > Dear Behdad: > > You replied to me personally, so allow me to forward your message (below) to > the list as your question was apparently directed to all list members. > > The interesting thing with www.babylon.com/... is that some of these Persian > dictionaries carry a copyright message, while others, specifically those > that use the name Aryanpur, do not. According to the introductory message, > the latter have been >>Presented by: Network and Information Center (NIC) of > the university of Isfahan. web site: www.ui.ac.ir [...]<< What does this > mean? Presented by whom? The lawful owners of the dictionary contents and of > the data? Presented to whom? To the "Public Domain"? This hypothesis seems > to be supported by the fact that www.babylon.com/gloss/glossaries.html > speaks of "Free Public Glossaries", but this goes of course with the implied > assumption that the people who "presented" these data has the legal capacity > to do so. > > Lastly, does anyone know if an Aryanpur printed or electronic version has > ever been [re-]published in one of the signatory states of the Universal > Copyright Convention*, carrying an appropriate copyright message? Proving > this would be the only chance, IMO, to protect the original authors' rights > in the international theater. > > Best regards, > > Peter > > > *) see http://www.unesco.org/culture/laws/copyright/html_eng/state1952.shtml > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Behdad Esfahbod [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 10:25 PM > To: Linguasoft > Subject: Re: English<>Persian electronic dictionaries > > > The one that claims to be Aryanpur is almost what we have, based > on the number of entries. I don't know about the others, nor can > I check. Would one please download and have a look. The big > one, with 250000 entries(!!), is it the multi-volume Aryanpur? > > behdad > > On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Linguasoft wrote: > > > In an attempt to broaden our current discussion: > > > > Does anyone know about the legal status of the dictionaries > > offered for free download on the following site: > > > > > http://info.babylon.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?layout=sr_new.html&cat=21&sort=&n > > c=2&n=10 > > > > The company offering them is identified at > > > > http://www.babylon.com/display.php?id=44&tree=7&level=2 > > > > (the German address is only a branch office, AFAIK). > > > > Best regards, > > > > Peter > > > --behdad behdad.org _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
