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1. Re: Stardict and unspecified legal issues (Tom Callaway)
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Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:22:29 -0400
From: Tom Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Stardict and unspecified legal issues
To: Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov(a)gmail.com>
Cc: legal(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Message-ID: <4E1B0725.5040605(a)redhat.com>
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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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I think Tom meant to say, allegedly stolen.
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