License issues of file formats

Hi to all,
Maybe this is the wrong list for my question, but I don't know a better
place..

I'm developing a GPL'ed vocabulary trainer and would like to provide support
for other vocabulary file formats.
But I'm not sure if I'm allowed to do so, especially in the case of
commercial programs' file formats.
So do you think there are restrictions by law ?

Btw., do you know a good collection of vocabulary files ?

Thanks,
Micha
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Re: License issues of file formats

at Mittwoch, 2. Juni 2004 12:43 wrote Michael Scondo:
> Hi to all,
> Maybe this is the wrong list for my question, but I don't know a
> better place..
>
> I'm developing a GPL'ed vocabulary trainer and would like to
> provide support for other vocabulary file formats.
> But I'm not sure if I'm allowed to do so, especially in the case
> of commercial programs' file formats.
> So do you think there are restrictions by law ?
>
> Btw., do you know a good collection of vocabulary files ?
>
> Thanks,
> Micha



Micha !

I'm afraid I can't give legal advise. I'm not a lawyer and this
stuff is much to complicatet to me.

Anyway, about vocabulary files, maybe the following is of some use
for you.

I use steak or ksteak respectively. Steak is a german/english -
english/german dictionary. It's GPL'd and the vocabulary database
file is about 5.1 MB large and plain text. (ksteak is just the GUI
for steak under KDE).
It came with my SuSE distro.
The home of steak is
http://www.tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~razi/steak/steak. html
but I haven't checked if the link is still valid or broken. Pls.
google for yourself.

Furterhermore I have jdictionary here. It's a dictionary as well,
written in 100% java and GPL'd too. It supports english, german,
spanish and some other languages that have slipped my mind yet.
You may want to have a look at
http://www.jdictionary.info.

You didn't mention which language(s) your vocabulary trainer will
support but maybe this is of some help for you.

Bye,
Matthias

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Re: License issues of file formats

Hi Matthias,
thanks for the links.
Didn't know them, but the vocabulary files look interesting.
I will throw a eye onto them .. :-)
>
> I use steak or ksteak respectively. Steak is a german/english -
> english/german dictionary. It's GPL'd and the vocabulary database
> file is about 5.1 MB large and plain text. (ksteak is just the GUI
> for steak under KDE).
> It came with my SuSE distro.
> The home of steak is
> http://www.tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~razi/steak/steak. html
> but I haven't checked if the link is still valid or broken. Pls.
> google for yourself.
>
> Furterhermore I have jdictionary here. It's a dictionary as well,
> written in 100% java and GPL'd too. It supports english, german,
> spanish and some other languages that have slipped my mind yet.
> You may want to have a look at
> http://www.jdictionary.info.
>
> You didn't mention which language(s) your vocabulary trainer will
> support but maybe this is of some help for you.
>
> Bye,
> Matthias
>
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