[Fedora-legal-list] Stardict and unspecified legal issues

[Tom Callaway]

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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