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Bug#538852: could you tell me where the dictionaries raw data come from?



On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:29 AM, LIU Qi<liuqi82@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 02:20:41AM -0400, Tong Sun wrote:
>  > 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 safe ones. All stardict dictionaries are extremely
>  > easy to install anyway.
>
> I am afraid that only CEDICT is safe, and we should remove package
> dict-stardic and dict-xdict from Debian main.

Hmm... I thought dict-stardic is safe too. Afterall, stardic has been
in Debian for years, and I presume it follows the DFSG. So its
dictionary should be OK, right?



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