Re: [opensuse-m17n] Problems with edict package license

Hi all, I found that 1. Licenses of some small dictionary files in edict are unclear 2. KANJIDIC's license is CC Attribution-ShareAlike V3.0 with special condition For 1., I think we should just remove such dictionaries. 2. is troublesome. Mile Fabian once got special permission to distribute KANJIDIC that includes "SKIP field"; the copyright of that field is hold by Jack Halpern. The current license of this package come from this special permission. # The email he sent to Jack is found in jack-halpern-copyright-mbox. The author originally requires royalty for commercial product: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/kanjidic_doc.html#IREF14 This dictionary is needed by gjiten at least. I guess only a few people uses these packages. I'll ask Japanese community, including other distributions guys, how they think. # Debian and Ubuntu still have kanjidic packages. Fedora does not. Fuminobu TAKEYAMA (2012/08/21 5:32), Luiz Fernando Ranghetti wrote:

2012/8/20 Fuminobu TAKEYAMA :

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Hello,

Sorry, I didn't noticed that.

I'm also not a user of this package but as far as I know, the most part of the edict package is distributed under the Creative Commons License: http://www.edrdg.org/edrdg/licence.html

I'll check which file restricts the license of this package later.

Best regards,

Fuminobu TAKEYAMA

(2012/08/20 8:15), Luiz Fernando Ranghetti wrote:

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Hi,

It seems that the edict license is unaceptable for openSUSE, so it was dropped from openSUSE Factory (12.2 and beyond) 7 weeks ago. And all packages which requires/build require it oo.

https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/125777

The packages envolved are (in parenthesys the delete request #):

edict (125777) edict-emacs (125778) gjiten (126216) javadict (126217) xjdic (126288) xyaku (126289)

All of them are in state broken in M17N repository (because of the _link it has with factory - except edict and edict-emacs that I remove this _link and it builds ok)

I'm asking what sohuld we do in M17N? Drop these packages too? Try to build without edict? Move it to Non OSS or maybe Packman? Ask for help on what to do in similar cases on another list? (opensuse-factory/-packaging)

I don't use this packages, I note it while doing some cleanups on M17N (basically desabling sled repositories with unresolvable state)

Regards,

Luiz

Hi,

The SUSE Legal Team could help, as they point this package to exclusion on openSUSE Factory. I've CC'ed Cian Farrell, which can help use.

Regards,

Luiz

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