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Re: Wordlist in Wiktionary
- To: Documentation and Translation <doc at arabeyes dot org>
- Subject: Re: Wordlist in Wiktionary
- From: Isam Bayazidi <ibayazidi at gmail dot com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 17:01:04 +0300
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Well.. basically they are 2 different licenses, and it isn't possible
to have the GPL Wordlist put into the GFDL Wiktionary because the 2
licenses do not allow freely re licencing or moving the content between
the different licenses, approval from authors or the copyright holder
is a must.
I think that having such great effort as the Wordlist used for the
Wiktionary will be great.. specially that it will be part of the New
project "Ultimate Wiktionary" which aims to be a semantic/relational
system so the input from Wordlist will be used to give an Arabic
translation for similar words in all languages (ie. if Cat (en) is قطة
(Ar), and Chat (fr) is Cat (en) then قطة (Ar) is Chat (Fr) and the
other wy arround).. Ofcourse the system is more complex than this.. but
basically the input from the Wordlist will be of great importance, so
to have Arabic from Day one in this new project..
If it is needed to contact each contributor in the Wordlist and the get
the approval I am willing to do it.. I really think that it will be a
great container and use for the great efforts spent on the Wordlist.
On 8/6/05, Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com
> wrote:--- Isam Bayazidi <ibayazidi at gmail dot com
> wrote:
> I am currently in the Wikimania Conference (Wikimedia/Open Content Event). I
> was talking with Gerard Mel and he asked if there is a wordlist
> English/Arabic that the Wiktionary project could use (
> http://www.wiktionary.org). The Problem is the wordlist is under the GNU GPL
> License, while the Wiktionary is in the GNU FDL License. So, He would like
> to know if it is possible to have Arabeyes allow the Wordlist to be used
> under the GNU FDL License.
I did a quickie search to compare GPL vs. GFDL and there are views all over
the map - could someone in the know tell us the difference ? Isam, could you
ask Gerard for his view on why GFDL but not GPL. We've always thrived to
work under GPL as much as possible, but we need to continue to consider the
overall benefit to mankind at large given we don't go down the wrong ally.
Salam.
- Nadim
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