This is the Debian Linux prepackaged version of a German dictionary.
This package was put together by Michael Meskes from
sources obtained from
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-kiel.de/pub/kiel/dicts/hk2-deutsch.tar.gz
This version of the package also incorporates several changes
Christoph Berg added to the former package
aspell-de, which is based on files downloaded from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/de/.
The affix file carries the following copyright:
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# Affix table for German
#
In http://bugs.debian.org/131124 the author of this dictionary cleared the
copyright.
From: Heinz Knutzen
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 18:20:23 +0100
"Hereby I put the h2-deutsch wordlists under the GNU Public License"
On Debian GNU/Linux systems the complete text of the GPL can be found
in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.
The de-alt_phonet.dat file has the following copyright:
# German phonetic transformation rules for use with Aspell
# Copyright (C) 2000 Björn Jacke
#
# This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
# License version 2.1 as published by the Free Software Foundation;
#
# This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# Lesser General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
# License along with this library; if not, write to the Free
# Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
# 02110-1301, USA.
#
# Björn Jacke may be reached by email at bjoern.jacke@gmx.de