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From: Wolfram Schneider <w@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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To: current@FreeBSD.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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J. Wunsch writes:
>> What about a german words file (e.g /usr/share/dict/de_DE.ISO8859-1/words)?
>> The contents can be extract from various dictionaries.
>
>Without copyright problems?
>
>I think the web files are only available since their copyright has
>been expired after many years.

Sure? The copyright in Europe was changed this year. The Germans won
against the British :-(( Now for all books in EC: copyright has
been expired after *70* years. British books with expired 50 years old
copyright get their copyright back (with little exceptions).

Wolfram