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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">OK, I have included links to hyphen files in the following languages:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Afrikaans, Assamese, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, US English, British English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, German (1996), German (Swiss), Greek (mono), Greek (poly), Icelandic, Italian, Kurmanji,
Lithuanian, Mongolian, Norwegian, Norwegian (nynorsk), Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansh , Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian and Welsh.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Essentially, user of my product just has to click on a button with link and relevant hyphen file is downloaded into a folder on app I am developing.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If there are any languages/links you would like me to remove, please let me know.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have removed all files with GPL in them. Some have all of MIT, GPL and LGPL licences:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Panjabi (Punjabi), Tamil and Telugu
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have excluded those too as I do not have resources to investigate whether I can use them.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I think LPPL is OK for me to use – it’s nothing like GPL, but vague see link:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-source_software_licences">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-source_software_licences</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hyphenation is only a small part of product I am developing. It can easily work without hyphenation. However, hyphenation gives a much better layout. For that, I am grateful. If my venture is profitable I feel I certainly should contribute
a percentage of my profits to TUG who maintain and produce the hyphen files.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Is that not a win-win scenario? Supposing I made my code available to all. Someone else would distribute it and I would make no money at all. As a result, I would have nothing to contribute to TUG either.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kind Regards,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Christopher Camacho</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:somloieater@gmail.com">David G</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>08 October 2021 21:45<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:christopher_g_camacho@hotmail.com">Christopher Camacho</a><br>
<b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:tex-hyphen@tug.org">TeX Hyphenation and beyond</a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [tex-hyphen] I am coding a mobile that uses TeX hyphen file...</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Not a lawyer either, but I expect that if you kept<br>
contagious/non-distributable hyphenation files out of your app,<br>
included the ones you could,<br>
and then allowed users to import other dictionaries they'd found on<br>
the network or written themselves then you'd be reasonably safe.<br>
It would raise the hurdle for users, but your code would not then be<br>
including the copyrighted files, after all.<br>
<br>
Can I point out, though, that 'I can't afford to make my work open<br>
source', is quite easily countered by the counter-argument 'don't<br>
think you can profit from the hard work of others for free, then'. I<br>
expect that what you *should* be asking is not how you can avoid GPL,<br>
but how you<br>
can get in contact with the respective authors to say to them "I hope<br>
to make X from each sale of this closed-source app, and it would be<br>
neat if it could<br>
include your work, can we reach some kind of deal for a separate<br>
commercial licence?"<br>
<br>
David<o:p></o:p></p>
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