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Subject:    [kde-edu-devel] Fwd: Re: [Fsfe-uk] Licence?
From:       Anne-Marie MAHFOUF <a-m.mahfouf () lineone ! net>
Date:       2002-04-20 21:19:31
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Hi,

As Ewald mentionned the licence for the data for KVocTrain and FlashKard, I 
asked in a GNU mailing-list (Association For Free Software UK) and here is 
the answer.
I think this could be important for each of us.

annma

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Subject: Re: [Fsfe-uk] Licence?
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 22:02:27 +0100
From: "Imran Ghory" <ImranG@btinternet.com>
To: Anne-Marie MAHFOUF <a-m.mahfouf@lineone.net>
Cc: fsfe-uk@gnu.org

On 20 Apr 2002, at 18:33, Anne-Marie MAHFOUF wrote:
> On Saturday 20 Apr 2002 5:37 pm, you wrote:
> > What data is it ?
>
> vocabulary XML files like
> <english>apple</english>
> <french>pomme</french>
> saved in a format we invented.
>
> and text files with syllables and words.

For free vocab data files look at,

http://octopus.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/magic-dic/
(GPL data)

http://download.travlang.com/Ergane/frames-en.html
(Public Domain data)

Regarding the use of data from books, individual word translations
can be used from books but not entire sections (The data isn't
copyrighted but the collection of data is).

Also books out of copyright can be used for data (in the US this
means mainly pre-1923 books). Have a look at project Gutenberg
homepage for more information about finding out if a book is out of
copyright.

As to what licence you should do. I recommend you either put the
data into the public domain (so anyone can do what they want with
it) or under GPL (so any modifications will be contributed back).

(Note: IANAL but I'm involved in several public domain & open
source content projects and have some experience with the
licencing/copyright issues)

Imran
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http://www.bits.bris.ac.uk/imran/

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