Re: Aspell-en license Once again.
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Brian Nelson wrote:
> Kevin Atkinson <kevin@atkinson.dhs.org> writes:
>
> > Um no. This is not a statement of rights. It is merely an assessment of
> > how the DEC word list author views the situation. He assigns no
> > additional copyright to his work.
>
> Who holds the copyright then? DEC? Does anyone even hold a copyright
> on the list?
>
> Prior to the above quoted clause, the license states:
>
> To the best of my knowledge, all the files I used to build these
> wordlists were available for public distribution and use, at least
> for non-commercial purposes. I have confirmed this assumption with
> the authors of the lists, whenever they were known.
>
> Any idea what "the files I used to build these wordlists" were? If they
> weren't wordlists themselves, then there is no issue here. Is this what
> RMS was referring to?
I do not have a clue. I suggest someone contacts RMS on this matter. Do
not expect me to because I am sick of this whole discussion.
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