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Re: Which license for a dictionary or GFDL with clause == free?



On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 11:03:19PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> [CCed to Andrew McMillan; please see item 3 below.  Feel free to ignore
> the rest of the message.]
> 
> Eddy Petrisor wrote:
> > Now comes in the tricky part:
> > The copyright holder believes in free software, but he doesn't want his
> > work to be used in proprietary projects. So he wants some sort of
> > license that would be simillar to GPL, but fitted for a dictionary.
> 
> OK; that goal is definitely doable, through the use of a copyleft Free
> Software license.

Not in countries where a word list cannot be copyrighted, like the
U.S...

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