11:49 p.m.
Hello.
The stardict project was recently removed from SF due to unspecified
legal issues. In fact it was moved to Google Code, which was very
surprising to me, because I can hardly imagine a legal issue valid on
SF but invalid on Google Code.
Anyway, keeping in mind that the project owners claimed that "the
legal issues may never have been resolved" I think it's time to
reconsider whether we can ship it or not.
* http://stardict.sourceforge.net/
* http://code.google.com/p/stardict-3/
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With best regards, Peter Lemenkov.
8:29 p.m.
On Sat, 9 Jul 2011 08:49:55 +0400
Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello.
The stardict project was recently removed from SF due to unspecified
legal issues. In fact it was moved to Google Code, which was very
surprising to me, because I can hardly imagine a legal issue valid on
SF but invalid on Google Code.
Anyway, keeping in mind that the project owners claimed that "the
legal issues may never have been resolved" I think it's time to
reconsider whether we can ship it or not.
* http://stardict.sourceforge.net/
* http://code.google.com/p/stardict-3/
I'm not involved in fedora, i'm just commenting based on a checkout
from google code above.
* main licence listed as GPL3+
* Some files have copyright notices before 2007 which is when GPL3 was
released - i didn't search the 'net to try and find references to the
listed author authorising a latter licence.
(eg dict/tests/t_fuzzy.cpp dict/tests/t_dict_client.cpp)
* A file appears to be CPL, which the wiki says is not GPL compatible
[1]. I didn't check if this file is built in or not.
(eg dict/stardict-plugins/stardict-wordnet-plugin/tenis.h )
* Some files appears to have no licence, i don't know if if it is
assumed to be under the main licence or not.
(eg dict/src/sigc++config/sigc++config.h dict/src/sigc++/signal.h)
* Following on from that point, lots of files (without copyright
notices) say they are generated. From what? signal.h above is an
example.
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Good_Licenses
A close examination would probably show more, i found that lot by
running the licencecheck script (in debian - does fedora have one?) and
double checking the file headers.
thanks,
kk
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Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer
http://www.kgoetz.id.au
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9:22 a.m.
On 07/09/2011 12:49 AM, Peter Lemenkov wrote:
Hello.
The stardict project was recently removed from SF due to unspecified
legal issues. In fact it was moved to Google Code, which was very
surprising to me, because I can hardly imagine a legal issue valid on
SF but invalid on Google Code.
Anyway, keeping in mind that the project owners claimed that "the
legal issues may never have been resolved" I think it's time to
reconsider whether we can ship it or not.
* http://stardict.sourceforge.net/
* http://code.google.com/p/stardict-3/
If memory serves, the issue with stardict was with some (all?) of its
dictionaries being of extremely dubious origins (e.g. stolen from
non-free sources), not the code itself.
~tom
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