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 -- ------------------------------------------------------- | Mohammed Elzubeir | Visit us at: | | | http://www.arabeyes.org/ | | Arabeyes Project | Homepage: | | Unix the 'right' way | http://elzubeir.fakkir.net/ | -------------------------------------------------------
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