[Mageia-dev] stardict 3.0.3

[Michael Scherer]

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