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Re: FW: Arabic dictionary



On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 09:03:10PM +0300, Ahmad Al-rasheedan wrote:
> 
> I understood he will package Wordlist in a way that is not dictd nor
> miniQamoose thing. Wordlist will still be free to the public but he will
> elaborate on the format, definitions, display, etc.

That is not what I understood. I guess he may have to elaborate.

> 
> Personally I see no harm done provided he will maintain Arabeyes
> credits and the guy is preaching Arabic on his web site which is the
> motto of Arabeyes.

Neither do I (and can't imagine anyone who would).

> 
> Not looking at licenses or legal issues, I would feel good someone
> will lookup a word I translated. We struggled to contact Onelook.com
> to have our Arabic dictionary added to their list of dictionaries and
> I feel this is a good start with Mike that will include Arabic in his
> web site.

I am sure. If the intention is to simply re-format the wordlist in some
format that he wants to keep for himself, that is entirely up to him and
I don't know of any legal implications to that. Sounds harmless to me.
However, if he is adding/modifying content, then it's a whole other
issue.

Regards
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