[kde-edu]: Contribution: Kanji-English (was Kanji-kvtml for Parley, multiple answers)

[Peter Hedlund]

Hi,

For those interested in a little history, European (German) publishers do care 
about these things [1]. We should continue to be careful about publishing 
lists that are taken directly from other published works, mainly educational 
textbooks.

Thanks,
Peter

[1] http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-edu&m=110848319019962&w=2

On Wednesday 28 May 2008 02:49:41 pm Frederik Gladhorn wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> that's interesting, I asked around a few times to get good default choices
> for licenses but never got any advice what would be really favorable for
> any reason.
> As far as I know it also depends on local law if this type of "collection"
> specifically vocabulary translations are subject to any copyright.
> In Europe they are if the creator spent time to arrange them in some
> didactically or otherwise meaningful way.
> If you have further background info, I'd be interested to hear more.
> I consider this so basic knowledge - language basics - that copyright in
> this case is a bad joke in my opinion, but we have to be careful and
> protect our users and us of course.
>
> Regards,
> Frederik
>
> On Wednesday 28 May 2008 20:29:36 Joseph Kerian wrote:
> > On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Frederik Gladhorn
> > <frederik.gladhorn at gmx.de>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > I suggest using "Public Domain" as license for most use cases.
> >
> > We don't want to use "public domain" in KDE. Some countries, such as
> > Germany, do not recognize the concept in their copyright law.
> >
> > To pick from http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy , I would
> > recommend the (non-advertisement) BSD license, as it seems closest to
> > "public domain", but is legally recognized as a license.
> >
> > --Joe Kerian
>
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