On 2009-07-25 17:58 +0200, Ron wrote: > Hi Sven, > > Thanks for your interest in this! > > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 09:37:25AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> I am going to adopt the dict-devil package.
I just uploaded dict-devil 1.0-11 to mentors.debian.net. Would you like to review and/or sponsor it? If not, I'll send an RFS mail to debian-mentors. >> On 2005-06-17 14:19 +0200, Ron wrote: >> > Thanks for maintaining this package, and please do keep an eye out >> > for the other 850+ definitions should they become available to us. :-) >> >> Do you know whether the enlarged version is in the public domain now? >> And if it can be found somewhere? I was not able to locate an online >> version of it so far. > > No I don't unfortunately. I had a bit of a search around too, and mostly > could only find online references to an even newer reprint than the one > we first saw this in :( > > If you are interested in chasing this up, you might like to have a chat > to the fellow who maintains this site: http://www.fromoldbooks.org Very interesting site, thanks for the pointer. > He doesn't appear to have a copy listed there either, but he may know > someone who does have one that's old enough for our purposes. > > If you open up the javascript foldy-thing under "Online Reference Books" > he does have some rather amazing ancient dictionaries though, which it > would be absolutely awesome to have available in dict format too ... Indeed. That would require finding a text-only version of these old dictionaries, though. I'll look around a bit. Cheers, Sven
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