On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> Could someone please clarify the situation to me? Is a copyright on a
> word list even valid?
There is good reason to believe this is not the case (at least in the US)
based on the "Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service
Company, Inc." S
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Brian Nelson wrote:
> I'm working on packaging the new upstream GNU/aspell, and I've
> discovered a problem with the (attached) license of the English
> dictionary. The license, which is a mishmash of mostly free licenses,is
> not DFSG free as I understand it due to the DEC W
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Brian Nelson wrote:
> Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Brian Nelson wrote:
> >
> >> I'm working on packaging the new upstream GNU/aspell, and I've
> >> discovered a problem with the (at
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 03:23:45PM -0400, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> > I am merely quoting the closest thing to a copyright notice for all of the
> > wordlist as generally required by copyright law. RMS basically said the
> >
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 01:52:18AM -0600, John Galt wrote:
> > No, it's legal boilerplate. You can't testify to things that AREN'T to
> > the best of your knowlege. At worst it's redundant.
>
> Okay.
>
> > >> Actually it isn't a granting of right, but
Here is the README as found in the dec wordlist. It lists all the word
list used. Since SCOWL is a compilation of several word lists, one of
them which in DEC which is also a compilation of several word lists. I
really do not think there is a problem. Furthermore the copyright of word
lists is
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
>
> Here is the README as found in the dec wordlist. It lists all the word
> list used. Since SCOWL is a compilation of several word lists, one of
> them which in DEC which is also a compilation of several word lists. I
> really do not
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Branden Robinson wrote:
> I'll seed it with public
> domain sources and add words to it on the premise that any word other
> than a proper noun or proper adjective is uncopyrightable on its face.
> Proper nouns and adjectives from public domain works for which no
> trademark i
[Please CC Me as I am not subscribed to this list]
It has come to my attention that due to the discussion of a possible
problem with the aspell-en licence, Aspell-en 0.50 may not get uploaded to
Debian even though the issue was never really resolved.
Thus I will repeat my argument once again.
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 11:15:36PM -0500, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> > Thus I will repeat my argument once again. But, this time I would like I
> > response to the points I made and by the end of our debate I would like a
> > de
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Brian Nelson wrote:
> Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Scripsit Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >> Ugh, please respect the MFT header because the Aspell maintainer is not
> >> subscribed to d-l.
> >
> > Yeah. Other people complain vehemently unless I se
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Brian Nelson wrote:
> However, this "license" contains the same questionable clause as the
> aspell-en license:
>
> Therefore, it is safe to assume that the wordlists in this package
> can also be freely copied, distributed, modified, and used for
> personal, educational
On 4 Nov 2002, Henning Makholm wrote:
> Scripsit Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > However, this "license" contains the same questionable clause as the
> > aspell-en license:
>
> > Therefore, it is safe to assume that the wordlists in this package
> > can also be freely copied, distribu
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Brian Nelson wrote:
> Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Um no. This is not a statement of rights. It is merely an assessment of
> > how the DEC word list author views the situation. He assigns no
> > additional copyright t
st
for you to look over.
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Spell Checking Oriented Word Lists (SCOWL)
Revision 4a
April 4, 2001
by Kevin Atkinson
The SCOWL is a collection of word lists split up in various sizes, and
other categories, intended to be suitable for use in sp
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-- Forwarded message --
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 12:40:37 -0500 (EST)
From: Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: aspell-announce@gnu.org, aspell-user@gnu.org
Subject: New Version of Aspell English Dictionary Now Available
A new version of As
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, David Coe wrote:
> Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Since it is the DEC wordlist caused a problem someone should really update
> > the wenglish package with something else since it is based on the DEC
> > wordlist. Perhapes you
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