Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: Dictionaries repository

On 10/10/2011 06:16 PM, drew wrote:
> > krackedpress wrote:
> > > http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.4-installs/dictionary.html
> > You can remove the French dictionaries and Grammalecte from your list
> > (except for the Correcteur terminologique français). I’m the author of these
> > extensions and there has been no need to handle them for me. Thank you
> > anyway.
> OH - so these are not free for people to distribute then? I mean that is
> your right to say of course, just being sure that is what you mean.
>
> Thanks
>
> drew

Actually there are at least 9 or 10 people on the list of contributers 
to the French .oxt files with the following licenses listed as well.

  Licences :
   * MPL : Mozilla Public License
     version 1.1 ou supérieure  --  http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/MPL-1.1.html
   * GPL : GNU General Public License
     version 2.0 ou supérieure  --  
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
   * LGPL : GNU Lesser General Public License
     version 2.1 ou supérieure  --  
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html

NOW
if you are one of the people listed, do all of them want the files 
removed from the NA-DVD and all of the projects being created around the 
world?  Also, if we cannot distributed these files, then you better have 
a URL for those who want it from you and a mailing address for people to 
order [freely] a CD with the files from you for those who do not have 
the net, such as businesses, governments offices [local to me], the 
schools, etc., etc., etc..  Then you will also need to also ask all the 
Linux distros around the world to no longer distribute the French 
language files as well.

I take no ownership of the files, I just distribute the DVDs for free.  
I buy the media.  I print the DVD on my DVD printing inkjet.  I burn the 
DVDs.  I buy the DVD style cases.  I print the inserts.  Then I give 
these away to businesses, local government offices, school students and 
their parents, and anyone else that would want to try LibreOffice.  I 
used my limited, fixed, income to buy the supplies and give them away.  
I have made almost 100 of these so far.  No money given to me for this 
service.  I also paid the shipping cost to send a copy of 3.3.x and 
3.4.x DVDs to a guy in the European Union, since he wanted to base the 
DVD for his region on the English version of the NA-DVD.  That was not 
cheap.  But I have done all of this for free.  Do you want to take over 
my job and send everyone I have given a DVD to one you make with "your" 
French .oxt files that are MPL, GPL, and LGPL?  Do you want me to supply 
you a list?  I am in New York State.  How much will 100 CDs cost to 
burn, print labels on them, and mail them all to the 3 counties I have 
given out DVDs to?  Should I send them your email address for they can 
order a copy from you?

Maybe I should just look into making my own French .oxt files from files 
that have General Public Licenses and "promote them" as Kracked French 
dictionary files for LibreOffice and any other package that use .oxt 
dictionary files. I can do that according to what I know about the 
licenses used.  I created an English one with the most up-to-date word 
lists I could come up with, and I "fixed" a problem with a Bulgarian 
dictionary .oxt file.  I have not issue with making a French one if 
needed to serve the users I distribute my DVDs to.


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