Re: Aspell-en license Once again.
Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu> writes:
> Kevin Atkinson <kevin@atkinson.dhs.org> wrote:
>> This is NOT a clear case of 'something being not freely licensed'.
>>
>> 1) The exact license of the DEC word list is not clear.
>
> and then later in the DEC description
>
>> (NON-)COPYRIGHT STATUS
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Therefore, it is safe to assume that the wordlists in this package
>> can also be freely copied, distributed, modified, and used for
>> personal, educational, and research purposes. (Use of these files in
>> commercial products may require written permission from DEC and/or
>> the authors of the original lists.)
>
> which is clearly not a free license.
No, that's not the point. The point is that the above statement is not
clearly a license. It's an "interpretation" of the situation by someone
who doesn't actually (as I understand it) hold the copyright, so
therefore it's not actually a license.
Most of people who actually hold the copyrights (if they even claimed
any copyright at all, which is doubtful), are unknown and cannot be
contacted.
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