Bug#538849: could you tell me where the dictionaries raw data come from?

[Tong Sun <suntong@cpan.org>]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:01 PM, LIU Qi<liuqi82@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 09:00:34PM +0800, LIU Qi wrote:
>  > Dear Mr. Ma and Mr. Fu,
>  >
>  > I am packaging your dictionaries data from stardict 1.3 and
>  > xdict for Debian to used as the dictionaries of stardict.
>  > Now I really need to know where the raw data source of the
>  > dictionaries come from to determine if they follow the DFSG
>  > (http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines). Could you tell me
>  > more information about your dictionaries? Thank you very much.
> I have contacted the upstream of the two dictionaries, xdict and
> stardict 1.3. Most mails are failed to send. And no one responses my
> mail. I am afraid that we can not figure out how these dictionaries are
> made.

On their main dictionary entrance page,
http://stardict.sourceforge.net/Dictionaries.php

there is a disclaimer,

"Notice: As the dictionaries are collected from the internet, we can't
make sure of each dictionary's license, if you find your dictionaries
are downloadable here, which is not allowed, please mail me, i will
remove it soon."

So I think (and heard) Changwoo's suspicion is right.

Just pack those save ones. All stardict dictionaries are extremely
easy to install anyway.

my 2c

cheers

tong