From: "Matthias U. Eifert" <Matthiaseifert@gmx.de>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: License issues of file formats
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 18:44:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200406021844.27709.Matthiaseifert@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200406021243.44731.michael.scondo@arcor.de>
at Mittwoch, 2. Juni 2004 12:43 wrote Michael Scondo:
> Hi to all,
> Maybe this is the wrong list for my question, but I don't know a
> better place..
>
> I'm developing a GPL'ed vocabulary trainer and would like to
> provide support for other vocabulary file formats.
> But I'm not sure if I'm allowed to do so, especially in the case
> of commercial programs' file formats.
> So do you think there are restrictions by law ?
>
> Btw., do you know a good collection of vocabulary files ?
>
> Thanks,
> Micha
Micha !
I'm afraid I can't give legal advise. I'm not a lawyer and this
stuff is much to complicatet to me.
Anyway, about vocabulary files, maybe the following is of some use
for you.
I use steak or ksteak respectively. Steak is a german/english -
english/german dictionary. It's GPL'd and the vocabulary database
file is about 5.1 MB large and plain text. (ksteak is just the GUI
for steak under KDE).
It came with my SuSE distro.
The home of steak is
http://www.tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~razi/steak/steak.html
but I haven't checked if the link is still valid or broken. Pls.
google for yourself.
Furterhermore I have jdictionary here. It's a dictionary as well,
written in 100% java and GPL'd too. It supports english, german,
spanish and some other languages that have slipped my mind yet.
You may want to have a look at
http://www.jdictionary.info.
You didn't mention which language(s) your vocabulary trainer will
support but maybe this is of some help for you.
Bye,
Matthias
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2004-06-02 10:43 License issues of file formats Michael Scondo
2004-06-02 16:44 ` Matthias U. Eifert [this message]
2004-06-03 10:23 ` Michael Scondo
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