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Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 10:38:23 -0400
From: Erik Peterson <erik@mandarintools.com>
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I think as long as the package using CEDICT is also available for
download elsewhere for free (either separately or as part of an ISO)
then this is OK and within the scope of the license.

I am Erik Peterson, a graduate student in computational linguistics at
Carnegie Mellon University.  My undergraduate degree is in Chinese and
I've been studying it since then.  After the originator of CEDICT, Paul
Denisowski, disappeared I took over maintenance and growth of the
dictionary.

cedict@chinesetools.com is the right address to send questions and
submissions to.  I can also be reached at erik@mandarintools.com.

Regards,
Erik Peterson

Mike FABIAN wrote:

> If possible, I would like to add a CEDICT package to the next
> version of SuSE Linux. I wonder whether the license of CEDICT allows
> this. cedict_readme.txt says:
> 
> cedict_readme.txt> Permission is granted to make and distribute
> cedict_readme.txt> verbatim copies of these files provided this
> cedict_readme.txt> copyright notice and permission notice is
> cedict_readme.txt> distributed with all copies.  Any distribution of
> cedict_readme.txt> the files must take place without a financial
> cedict_readme.txt> return, except a charge to cover the cost of the
> cedict_readme.txt> distribution medium.
> 
> SuSE would of course not charge for CEDICT, but CEDICT would one of
> the several thousand packages on the SuSE CD/DVD-set and this is sold.
> 
> Is it OK to bundle CEDICT in a SuSE Linux release?
> 
> Another question:
> 
> cedict_readme.txt> Sometime in 2000 the web page of the originator of
> cedict_readme.txt> the CEDICT project, Paul Denisowski, disappeared
> cedict_readme.txt> from the web and his e-mail addresses stopped
> cedict_readme.txt> working.  To continue the work, I have taken the
>                                                    ^
> 
> who is "I"? Who should be credited as the main author of CEDICT
> now?
> 
> cedict_readme.txt> last versions of the dictionary and have started
> cedict_readme.txt> correcting and adding to them with the same intent
> cedict_readme.txt> as Paul, to provide a freely available, searchable
> cedict_readme.txt> Chinese/English dictionary.  Below is the original
> cedict_readme.txt> README file from Paul.
> 
> And, is there a mailing list for CEDICT? The readme says:
> 
> cedict_readme.txt> Please mail all contributions to
> cedict_readme.txt> cedict@chinesetools.com
> 
> Is it also OK to mail general questions (like in this mail)
> to this address? The home page of CEDICT
> 
>     http://www.mandarintools.com/cedict.html
> 
> doesn't mention any other contact address.
>

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