Re: Problems with edict package license

Hi all,

I found that
1. Licenses of some small dictionary files in edict are unclear
2. KANJIDIC's license is CC Attribution-ShareAlike V3.0 with special condition

For 1., I think we should just remove such dictionaries.

2. is troublesome.
Mile Fabian once got special permission to distribute KANJIDIC that
includes "SKIP field"; the copyright of that field is hold by Jack Halpern.
The current license of this package come from this special permission.
# The email he sent to Jack is found in jack-halpern-copyright-mbox.

The author originally requires royalty for commercial product:
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/kanjidic_doc.html#IREF14

This dictionary is needed by gjiten at least.


I guess only a few people uses these packages.
I'll ask Japanese community, including other distributions guys, how they think.
# Debian and Ubuntu still have kanjidic packages. Fedora does not.


Fuminobu TAKEYAMA

(2012/08/21 5:32), Luiz Fernando Ranghetti wrote:
> 2012/8/20 Fuminobu TAKEYAMA <[email protected]>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Sorry, I didn't noticed that.
>>
>> I'm also not a user of this package but as far as I know,
>> the most part of the edict package is distributed
>> under the Creative Commons License:
>> http://www.edrdg.org/edrdg/licence.html
>>
>> I'll check which file restricts the license of this package later.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Fuminobu TAKEYAMA
>>
>>
>> (2012/08/20 8:15), Luiz Fernando Ranghetti wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> It seems that the edict license is unaceptable for openSUSE, so it was
>>> dropped from openSUSE Factory (12.2 and beyond) 7 weeks ago. And all
>>> packages which requires/build require it oo.
>>>
>>> https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/125777
>>>
>>> The packages envolved are (in parenthesys the delete request #):
>>>
>>> edict (125777)
>>> edict-emacs (125778)
>>> gjiten (126216)
>>> javadict (126217)
>>> xjdic (126288)
>>> xyaku (126289)
>>>
>>> All of them are in state broken in M17N repository (because of the
>>> _link it has with factory - except edict and edict-emacs that I remove
>>> this _link and it builds ok)
>>>
>>> I'm asking what sohuld we do in M17N? Drop these packages too? Try to
>>> build without edict? Move it to Non OSS or maybe Packman? Ask for help
>>> on what to do in similar cases on another list?
>>> (opensuse-factory/-packaging)
>>>
>>> I don't use this packages, I note it while doing some cleanups on M17N
>>> (basically desabling sled repositories with unresolvable state)
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Luiz
>>>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> The SUSE Legal Team could help, as they point this package to
> exclusion on openSUSE Factory. I've CC'ed Cian Farrell, which can help
> use.
>
> Regards,
>
> Luiz
>
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