Just my last words: * Like Mr Khanban, as I wrote in my long report before, I checked it with the one-volume Aryanpur dictionary and all 20 entries I checked matched perfectly.
* Even if people have changed 90% of it, the rest 10% is copyrighted by Aryanpurs. Copyright holders accumulate, not replaced. * Every individual is responsible to make sure he's not infringing anyone's copyright. In other words, you are responsible to check the software you are handed in is done so legally. * No I'm not joining the joy in sharing the Aryanpur dictionary. Thanks behdad On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Ali A Khanban wrote: > Hi, > > I just repeat an old story again. I don't want to prove or disprove or > claim anything. > > About ten years ago, there was a dictionary in DOS environment written > by Bahman Sabouri (if I recall correctly) with a database claimed to be > based on Aryanpour dictionary. I can accpet that claim because I checked > many of its entries against a one-volume Aryanpour dictionary and it > seemed to be the right source (One-volume Aryanpour dictionary by > AmirKabir publishing co.). It has the ability to add words to the > database. By the time I had that copy of the software, the database had > some extra words added by previous users. I decoded the database and > created a text file. Then I started to modify it and correct mis-spelled > words and typos and anything I thought must be changed. I didn't intend > to do anything with it at the time. I did it just out of curiosity and > challenge. Masood Hashemi was and is a friend of mine and was our FoxPro > master in the department. We decided to use that data for a FoxPro > dictionary and he did the job. Because I was the one who somehow had > provided the data and he was the programmer, both of our names were in > the program as the authors. I saw a copy of that program a few years ago > in Shiraz, in one of my visits to Shiraz medical university. > > Now, if we accept that the data in Masood Hashemi's online dictionary is > the same data, which is a strong guess, then by this short history you > know exactly how that was provided. I should add that at the time of > that DOS software, we were not aware of any possible copy right on this > data, as I believe neither was the original author. Or maybe the fact > was that no one cared about it, even AmirKabir publishing co. who was > the Aryanpour publisher. I am not sure, anyway. > > Best > -ali- > > Pedram Safari wrote: > > > > >In any case, I would like to testify again that the "program" is written > >by Masood Hashemi, so there is no copyright infringement if his share in > >this work, and his willingness to make it available to the public, is > >acknowledged and appreciated. There has been no official claim yet by > >anyone on the source of the "database" (I think Majid Khanban said that he > >supervised a project by Masood Hashemi and someone else from which this database > >came out, but he couldn't recall the name of the other person, am I right, Majid?). > >Neither any official claim by anyone on the dictionary "content", unless you, > >Behdad, are Aryanpours' official attorney. > > > >As I had promised before, I would give appropriate credits in my > >dictionary page to the person who could produce convincing proof of > >his/her involvement in that project. > > > > > > --behdad behdad.org _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing