[Mageia-dev] stardict 3.0.3

Mon Jan 30 23:29:31 CET 2012

Le lundi 30 janvier 2012 à 22:56 +0100, Claire Revillet a écrit :
+> Le 30/01/2012 22:50, Funda Wang a écrit :
+> > 2012/1/31 Claire Revillet<grenoya at zarb.org>:
+> >> For me StarDict is a dead project and I was looking for a successor.
+> >> There is no information on the "copyright infringement" and the tarball that
+> >> can be downloaded on the new site are exactly the same as the old ones !
+> >> So the first possibility is: there was truly a copyright problem and there
+> >> is still (this may be proved in the future if the copyright owner ask to
+> >> close again the project) ; second possibility: there was no copyright
+> >> problem (but a more obscure one), but, still, the project is not very
+> >> active.
+> > I think there is no copyright problem with the stardict the program
+> > itself, only the data files (dictionaries). But the author has been
+> > missing for half a year:
+> > http://goldendict.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1109
+> It's also what I think : no really copyright pb with the code (and yes, 
+> I had seen link :\ ).
+
+Unfortunately, that's not really the opinion of the sourceforge lawyers.
+
+I assume that since you didn't warn us of a problem during the 6 months
+that you at least took the initiative as a maintainer to contact
+sourceforge.net, and that you received a answer letting you safely to
+dismiss their analysis. 
+So can you share the answer, and/or the analysis ?
+
+Because I think that if we have a special treatement for patents and
+DMCA despites having legal protections ( safe harbor laws in the USAs,
+for example ) for mirrors, we should at least be as vigilant for
+copyright violation when there is no such provision and much stricter
+laws ( per various treaty ), as we all know given the current events.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+