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Re: Aspell-en license Once again.



Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu> writes:

> Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com> wrote:
>> Why did you snip the rest of my explanation?  As I said, that statement
>> is *not* a license.  The DEC word list has no license.
>
> The DEC word list has a license, which we do not know all of the
> specifics about.  However, one of the things that we do know about the
> license is that it is only for non-commercial use.

We don't know that.  That's only what the person who compiled the lists
hypothesizes, whose "copyright" holders are not known.  AFAIK, a license
can only be granted by the copyright holder.  So what exactly makes that
statement a license of any sort?

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