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



2009-08-04 (화), 14:51 -0400, Tong Sun:
> 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?

Debian does mistakes. Being in Debian is not a 100% proof of
DFSG-freeness. Sadly for some packages there is not enough effort on
license check.

-- 
Changwoo Ryu <cwryu@debian.org>

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