Yes, I recieved your bug report. Yes, it is a bug. Yes, I'll remove this dictionary, when I will be near thick channel to upload new dictionary.
I read license from other dictionary distributed with this, it was ok. I was wrong. Sorry, excuse me. Nidd. PS. It was my mistake, and If you want to fix it really soon, you can make a NMU, because I will be near thick channel in 3 days. Sorry. David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was looking at the license to mueller7accent-dict. The COPYRIGHT > file reads: > > ------------------------------ > (C) 1996 S.Starostin > (C) 1999-2000 E.S.Cymbalyuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Download: > > http://www.geocities.com/mueller_dic/ > > Copyright: > > This program is licensed under the GNU GPL version 2 or later, > see /usr/share/common-licences/GPL on a Debian system or > http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html on the web. > ------------------------------ > > I was digging around upstream, though, and found this: > > ------------------------------ > Copyright agreement is provided in first line of the dictionary file: > (C) V.K.Mueller English-Russian Dictionary, 7 Edition; > "State Publishing House of Foreign and National Dictionaries" Moscow 1961; > Free Electronic Version by S.Starostin 1996 > starling.rinet.ru/download/dict.exe; > Electronic Version by E.S.Cymbalyuk 1999 under GNU GPL, ver. 1.2, see > latest version on www.chat.ru/~mueller_dic or www.geocities.com/mueller_dic > > You may download original DOS-version of the Mueller dictionary (7 > Edition) for DOS from www-page of Sergei Starostin. According to the > extracurial compromise between company "ABBYY" and publishing house > "Russky Yazyk", publishing house "Russky Yazyk" has copyrights on > editions of Mueller dictionary published after 1961 only. Thus the > content of Mueller dictionary published before 1961 is in public > domain. S.Starostin, as the author of the first electronic version > of Mueller dictionary, kindly allowed me to use his code one for any > purpose. You can use my electronic version of Mueller dictionary > under GNU GPL. > > The Russian Scientific-Technical Center "Informregistr" has > registered the Electronic Version of Mueller Dictionary (7 Edition) > on February 29, 2000. The number of State registration is > 0320000030. > ------------------------------ > > This should be in the copyright file, right? More worrysome to me, > though, is why is this in the public domain? Under Berne convention > copyright law, Mueller or ABBYY or Russky Yazyk would still have > copyright, unless it was deliberately given up. Does the registry > number tell us anything about the copyright status? > > (I may be going a little paranoid here, but this upstream isn't > careful in dealing with copyright issues, and the description > sounds a little suspicious. What does extracurial mean, and what > did he mean it to mean, anyway?) > > -- > David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org > "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and > laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Peter Novodvorsky http://www.altlinux.ru/ AltLinux Team, Russia Debian.Org http://debian.org/~nidd Debian --- no need to wait for tomorrow.
