European Directive on the legal protection of databases

2002-11-07 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
To whom it may concern: The following URL displays the text of the Directive, available in all 11 official languages of the EU (so you'll have no problem reading it :-)) http://europa.eu.int/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexapi!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=en&numdoc=31996L0009&model=guichett (All in

Re: Aspell-en license Once again.

2002-11-07 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > If upstream says that something is tainted, then we usually assume it > is tainted. Here, upstream is clearly saying that the word-list is > tainted. No he doesn't. He says | (Use of these files in commercial products may require written | permission

Re: Aspell-en license Once again.

2002-11-07 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit "Joe Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > If one took a spell-checker, such as Aspell, then: > > - piped the whole of Usenet through it for a couple of weeks > > - automatically removed all sequences of characters that failed > > - removed all duplicate words from the result > > Would the

Re: Aspell-en license Once again.

2002-11-07 Thread Richard Stallman
I'm CCing RMS here because I know he's interested in hearing the tentative decision we've come to. The text I saw seems to say that this is one among several word lists that Aspell comes with. My tentative decision was that we should remove that particular word list from Aspell, and simpl

Re: European Directive on the legal protection of databases

2002-11-07 Thread Walter Landry
Jacobo Tarrio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To whom it may concern: > > The following URL displays the text of the Directive, available in all 11 > official languages of the EU (so you'll have no problem reading it :-)) > > http://europa.eu.int/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexapi!prod!CELEXnu