[Parley-devel] [kde-edu]: common vocabulary lists

[Sabine Emmy Eller]

The nicest part here is: you cannot copyright a single word, but only
collections - now when I use collections (=dictionaries) to look up words
for my work as a translator, I don't do any coypright infringement, so why
should it be problematic to use dictionaries to look up words I have in a
list and wish to translate into another language?

There are plenty of ready vocabulary lists with translations out there - the
problem is: for Parley we need categories ... and that is also one of the
problems I have in my terminology: how to categorize what is in there? It's
one of those works I dislike most when working on terminology.

I got a wordlist of approx. 1700 basic terms out of en.wiktionary the other
day - with categories, but still: there's not enough time to "really" work
on it right now.

Sabine

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Juergen :-) <b4tasttd at auroville.org.in>wrote:

> Hi Frederic,
> I am with you regarding copyright problems. It is not a good idea to
> type in a list from a book and then publish it under GPL. But a good
> "shake-up" of lists and let the words settle by gravity does a good job :-)
> Juergen
>
>
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