Bug#538852: Bug#538849: ITP: stardict-english-simpchinese -- Stardict package for English to and from Simplified Chinese dictionaries

[LIU Qi <liuqi82@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 10:02:46AM +0900, Changwoo Ryu wrote:
 > 2009-07-27 (월), 21:58 +0800, LIU Qi:
 > > 
 > > * Package name    : stardict-english-simpchinese
 > >   Version         : 20090727-1
 > >   Upstream Author : Paul Denisowski, Ma Suan, Fu Jianjun, Hu Zheng
 > > * URL             : http://stardict.sourceforge.net/Dictionaries_zh_CN.php
 > > * License         : GPL-2, CEDICT
 > >   Description     : Stardict package for English to and from Simplified Chinese dictionaries
 > >    This is a package of the English to and from Simplified Chinese
 > >    dictionaries for Stardict.
 > >    .
 > >    It contains the CEDICT Chinese-English dictionary, stardict1.3
 > >    English-Chinese dictionary, XDICT Chinese-English dictionary and
 > >    XDICT English-Chinese dictionary.
 > 
 > Please verify that they are really under GPL. Many of the GPL-labeled
 > stardict dictionaries are actually generated from non-free sources
 > (sometimes illegally). This problem has been raised many times but the
 > stardict authors don't seem to care at all.

There are only three dictionary data files in the package. I am not sure
and could not find any clues on the internet about the licenses of the
others listed in the homepage of stardict. So they are not included in
this package. The three dictionaries are:

1. stardict1.3 dictionary: it is based on the dictinary in the stardict
1.3 written by Ma Suan. This software is under GPL-2. If it does not
conform to the DFSG, it should not exist in Debian either. However it
has been in the Debian for many years.

2. xdict dictionary: xdict is also under GPL. And it has been in Debian.
Please refer to the package: dict-xdict                                .

3. cedict: it is under the CEDICT license.

Thanks for your reminding about this license problem. The dictionaries
that could be downloaded from the stardict indeed have issues about the
licenses. I hope that I have considered those problems.

Regards,
Qi


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