JR-EDICT LICENCE STATEMENT Copyright (C) 2005 Oleg V. Volkov Introduction This document outlines the licence arrangement put in place for usage of JR-EDICT and all derived files. Application This licence statement and copyright notice applies to the following dictionary files, the associated documentation files, and any data files which are derived from them. * jr-edict.source - Japanese-Russian Dictionary File with additional internal and grammatical tags. * jr-edict.words - Generated file that contains only translations. * jr-edict.tags - Generated file that contains translations and populated with grammatical tags from main file and JMDICT/EDICT(x). Copyright over the documents covered by this statement is held by Oleg V. VOLKOV. (x) JMDICT and EDICT are Japanese-Multilingual and Japanese-English Dictionaries created by Jim Breen (jwb@csse.monash.edu.au) and maintained by The Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group. Copyright over most grammatical data in generated files jr-edict.tags.* is held by The Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group. See following pages for more info: EDICT: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/edict.html JMDICT: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/j_jmdict.html Home Page of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/groups/edrdg/ Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group General Dictionary Licence Statement: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/groups/edrdg/licence.html Usage, Copying and Distribution a. General Permission Any person or organization in possession of a copy of any of the files covered by this statement, whether they have received the copy via free distribution or purchase: i. may use the file for personal purposes such as to assist with reading texts, research, translation services, etc. ii. may, subject to the restriction detailed below, supply extracts or small portions of the files to other persons or organizations in the form of written documents, electronic mail, etc. Such an activity may result in a fee, e.g. in the case of professional translation services. iii. must as part of the receiving of the copy undertake to be bound by all the conditions below relating to the distribution of the files. b. Free-of-charge distribution (*) Permission is granted: i. to make and distribute verbatim copies of these files provided the full documentation of the files and this copyright notice and permission notice is distributed with all copies. Any distribution of the files must take place without a financial return, except a charge to cover the cost of the distribution medium. ii. to place copies of these files on WWW and ftp servers for subsequent distribution under the same conditions listed above. For WWW distribution, there must be links to either local copies of the documentation and licence files or to the locations of the files at Monash University, and acknowledgment must be made of the source of the files. iii. to make and distribute extracts or subsets of the files, or files in other formats and codings containing material selected from the files, under the same conditions applying to verbatim copies. Where the coding or format is associated with a particular software package, the utility software which produces the distributed format must also be available freely for general use. iv. to translate elements of the files into other languages, and to make and distribute copies of those translations under the same conditions applying to verbatim copies. c. Incorporation into Free Software and Server Systems (*) Permission is granted: i. to use these files as part of software which is distributed free-of-charge, provided all the conditions associated with free-of-charge distribution as described above are met, and provided that full acknowledgement of the source of the files is made in the software documentation. ii. to incorporate the files into any WWW or similar server system which operates without charge provided all the conditions associated with free-of-charge distribution as described above are met. 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The remittance is to take place at least once each 3 months. iii. the full documentation of the files and this copyright notice and permission notice is distributed with all copies. iv. full acknowledgement of the source of the files is made in the software documentation. e. Commercial WWW Servers The contents of these file must not be made available via WWW services for which a charge is levied without the prior permission of copyright holder. Permission for such usage will normally be granted in return for a fee based on a proportion of the subscription charges. The other conditions applying to free WWW servers also apply to commercial WWW servers. f. Commercial Software Packages The contents of these files must not be incorporated into a software package(+) that is sold commercially or used exclusively within a company or organization without the prior permission of copyright holder. Permission will normally be granted for a non-exclusive licence to incorporate the files in return for either a one-off payment to copyright holder or a royalty on sales. The other conditions applying Shareware software apply. (+) For the purposes of this section, "incorporated into a software package" is defined as having the software designed and developed to operate with the dictionary files, and typically has the file(s) distributed with the software. Where software has been designed and developed primarily to use other dictionary files, versions of the files covered by this licence may be adapted for use with such software and made available free-of-charge under the "Free-of-charge distribution" provisions above. Incorporation of these files into standard or optional for-fee distributions is deemed to be incorporation into the software, and will require a licence. h. Published Dictionaries The contents of these files must not be published on paper or other media such as CD-ROM without the prior permission of the copyright holder. (*) Persons or organizations distributing copies or extracts of the files in these categories may do so without requesting or receiving formal permission from copyright holder. Notification of the distribution would be appreciated. Note that in all cases, the addition of material to the files or to extracts from the files does not remove or in any way diminish copyright holder's copyright over the files. Enquiries All enquiries to: Oleg V. Volkov