Re: [ossig] BM word list - release under what license?

[Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com>]

On Wed, 21 May 2003, Imran William Smith wrote:

> 2) has anybody done this before, i.e. are we wasting our time?  Many
> languages already have an 'ispell' dictionary but it seems BM doesn't.

i presume you're part of the open office l10n project for malay at
http://oo-l10n-my.sourceforge.net/ ? you may want to sync with sebol if
you aren't

> 3) what license should we release the word list under?
> Should we release so it can only be used by open source
> apps in future?  How?  Releasing under GFDL doesn't
> accomplish that, or does it?  Or would a BSD-style
> documentation license be 'doing the right thing' for the

i'd think that releasing under a bsd type license would allow it to be
used in other software as well. the core of the work is in actually
creating the wordlist dictionary for a spell checker, and this would
certainly help in people implementing local spell checkers in other sw.

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