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[Savannah-register-public] Re: Fwd: [task #7815] Submission of Chinese A
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Sylvain Beucler |
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[Savannah-register-public] Re: Fwd: [task #7815] Submission of Chinese Administrative Division tcl/tk Selector |
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Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:58:14 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) |
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 09:47:32PM +0200, Alexander Shulgin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Given the package author's claims are valid, basing on common sense
> and after a not so quick web search I think there is potentially no
> danger in distributing the area code database along with the package.
>
> Can we approve this project now? :-)
Yep :)
--
Sylvain
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Zhang Weiwu <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 7:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [task #7815] Submission of Chinese Administrative
> Division tcl/tk Selector
> To: Alexander Shulgin <address@hidden>
> Cc: Alexander Shulgin <address@hidden>, address@hidden
>
>
> Alexander Shulgin 写道:
>
> > Follow-up Comment #1, task #7815 (project administration):
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Could you please clarify if area code database you included into your
> package
> > is in the public domain or is copyrighted by the Chinese government, and if
> > so, what are the copying conditions? In any case a URL would be helpful--I
> > couldn't find this on the web myself...
> >
> Hi.
>
> The area code is released as a governmental standard to be used by all
> activities in regarding to geographical area location. There are no
> copyright information at all with this file, and I am pretty sure if I
> ask them copyright information I will not get any answer because they
> didn't develop copyright concepts there yet.
>
> Each province has a governmental organization "the Statistics Bureau"
> which has the task to distribute this code to the public, forced to be
> used in governmental related projects. In my package the example code is
> from "Jiangxi province Statistics Bureau", and I downloaded it from here:
> http://www.jxstj.gov.cn/tjzs/tjbz/200612270012.htm
>
> anyway since it's public-downloadable I assume it's usable. I could have
> simply referred it as an URI in my package, but I know this URI will
> change, many governmental website URIs change from year to year and
> historical data are usually not maintained. I wouldn't suggest people
> surf governmental websites at all because they tends to have higher
> chance of malware there (government information centers, the special
> server rooms run governmental websites, hires people mostly are
> relatives of governmental officials and usually is the worst (in regard
> to virus and malware) data center compare to all commercial data center
> in the town)
>
> > Also, there is no sign of reference to 'area_code.csv' in the
> > select_locality.tcl file. Probably this is by intent, but otherwise is
> there
> > a reason for including the database into the package?
> >
> Sorry, I simply forgot to mention 'area_code.csv' is the only
> commandline parameter of the executable.
>
> > --
> > Cheers,
> > Alex
> >
> >
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