Re: Announce: LibOTS 0.3.0 released

From: Rui Miguel Seabra (rms@1407.org)
Date: Sat Jul 19 2003 - 07:05:59 EDT

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    On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 18:16, ericzen wrote:
    > On 2003.07.18 02:38 Andrew Dunbar wrote:
    > >
    > > Just be very sure that only non-copyrighted material
    > > is included, or that permission is granted by the
    > > copyright owners.
    > >
    > > Anyway at the risk of overstating, we don't so much
    > > want the most common words as we want the functional
    > > words.
    >
    > Why would it matter?
    > I'll put eighty bucks down that Michael Crichton doesn't care if
    > his "to"s are in the dictionary or if Wikipedia's "to"s are in
    > the dictionary. Granted, if "Jurassic" shows up in the dictionary
    > (like your second point), we might have more serious issues....
    >
    > I, personally, would like to think that the out put will be
    > hand-eyeballed, which would prevent the likes of "time" from
    > entering the dictionary (relatively common) and ensure that "this"
    > is present.

    Collections may be copyrighted in some places.
    However, I don't think common words are something that would be
    considered copyrighteable, or did I miss something?

    Rui

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