Ciaran Farrell wrote:
On 21/08/12 19:42, Fuminobu TAKEYAMA wrote:
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.
Yes, thanks. That would be a good way to progress. If there is a particular dictionary which is necessary and for which the licenses are not entirely clear, I can contact the legal representatives of the company distributing the dictionary to try to obtain permission to redistribute. It would also be interesting to find out whether the debian community was able to secure redistribution permission for such dictionaries - and if so, under what terms.
As Fuminobu wrote, KANJIDIC itself is distributed under CC BY-SA 3.0 License. But the license of SKIP codes, which are included in KANJIDIC, is CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 and 'The SKIP codes may not be used in commercial applications without explicit written permission to do so by Jack Halpern.' # http://www.kanji.org/kanji/dictionaries/skip_permission.htm In 2004, when Mike Fabian got the permission, SUSE Linux basically was a commercial distribution and I suppose that's why he had to get special permission in order to include KANJIDIC in SUSE Linux distribution. But for now, openSUSE itself isn't a commercial distribution. So I think there's no problem if we include KANJIDIC (SKIP codes) _just in openSUSE_. Or, is there any guideline which lay it down that software under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license cannot be included in _openSUSE_ distribution? Best, -- _/_/ Satoru Matsumoto - openSUSE Member - Japan _/_/ _/_/ Marketing/Weekly News/openFATE Screening Team _/_/ _/_/ mail: helios_reds_at_gmx.net / irc: HeliosReds _/_/ _/_/ http://blog.zaq.ne.jp/opensuse/ _/_/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-m17n+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-m17n+owner@opensuse.org