[Fedora-legal-list] legal Digest, Vol 49, Issue 7

[Tristan Santore]

On 12/07/11 13:00, legal-request at lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
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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 at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Stardict and unspecified legal issues
> To: Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov at gmail.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/
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> 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.
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> ~tom
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I think Tom meant to say, allegedly stolen.

Regards,
Tristan

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