Re: [edict-jmdict] A Korean language version of EDICT/JMdict ? (KEDICT?)

["Francis Bond" <bond@********>]

G'day,

>>> 7) think about if you want to make everything free or just the basics
>>> (Hanja, Hangul, English); if you make everything free available, more
>>> powerful organizations can just take your data and make their own
>>> dictionary; there is no brand loyability of an end user; if another site
>>> is more convenient to use; the people will go there - so think well about
>>> the license (letting other people use your data needs to help you too -
>>> as
>>> you are doing the hard work - a win-win situation); as a beginning
>>> project
>>> you are vulnerable;
>>
>> Get your licence sorted out from the beginning. I recommend a Creative
>> Commons one such as I use. GPL is not much use for dictionary data.
>> I'm not that worried about theft - the few that tried with EDICT got
>> stopped
>> very quickly.
>
> How about Creative Commons (Attribution-Non Commercial-Sharealike):
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ (available for
> other jurisdictions as well)?

I think Jim uses just Attribution-ShareAlike Licence, and I use just
Attribution for my much smaller lingdic.  Technically then, if your
dictionary is largely based on edict, then it either must also be CC
Attribution-ShareAlike Licence (^_^) or you would have to ask Jim for
permission to change the license.

Making it non-commercial means that it cannot be bundled with debian,
and most linux distributions, as they often charge for the CDs (not a
lot, but non-commercial is not very discriminating).   For me, the
whole point of making a free dictionary is to make the data available
for people to use and reuse --- any restrictions you add just make it
harder for people to use that data.

Cheers,

-- 
Francis Bond <http://www2.nict.go.jp/x/x161/en/member/bond/>
NICT Language Infrastructure Group