Re: [Fennic-spellchecker] Re: Add hyph_fi_FI into Debian OOo build system?
On Mon, 24 May 2004, Jarno Elonen wrote:
> To clear up the issue, I just gave Kauko Saarinen a quick phone call (luckily
> he was still working at the same place as mentioned in the dictionary) and
> asked him explicitly if the "Patterns may be freely distributed" statement
> covers modifications also. He replied (literal transcription):
>
> "Kyllä saa minun puolestani muokata; hyvä tietää että on käytössä. Olisi
> tietysti kiva jos kirjoitetaan tiedostoon jos on muokattu."
Could you get him to explicitely declare his previous work as LGPL? If he is
willing to release a statement to that effect, we have a clear winner.
> ...as saying that Fred Karlsson added the triples himself instead of someone
> else encoding triples described in his article, I called prof. Karlsson also
> and he confirmed that this interpretion is wrong -- the TeX rules were done
> by Saarinen.
Does Karlsson also agree to assing LGPL to what he changed?
> According to my understanding of the copyright law, they don't count as
> "substantial creative labour" any more than my changes, but at least now that
> they have been removed entirely, nobody can even start to claim he owns any
> copyrights anymore, and so the sole copyright owner is now Kauko Saarinen.
> Hence, referring to our conversation on the phone, I think we can safely
> apply the following diff:
>
> - Patterns may be freely distributed
> + Patterns may be freely modified and distributed
>
> ...along with the explanation above, or alternatively stamp some standard,
> liberal license such as MIT or Modified BSD on it.
Exactly. Can he select which license he wants and let us know? We can of
course recommend thta he selects LGPL, then we're home free. :)
> I probably should've gone through this exercise right after the conversion
> instead of assuming it's been deemed Free since it's included in several Free
> packages already, shame on me.
Thanks for taking the time to contact them both! It's highly appreciated.
On a different issue, could you also ask Saarinen and Karlsson if they would be
willing to contribute their expertise in linguistics to help develop and
maintain the Finnish hyphenator and dictionaries? We need coders for the
spellcheckers, but we also need linguists to maintain the wordlists.
--
Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant
http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/
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