In May last year, Jonathan wrote,
What public domain / freely available lexicons are good enough to be worth using, especially in software systems that can't use resources that are not freely available?
LSJ, obviously. And that's already available in XML.
I'm interested to know whether the XML file itself is in the public domain (and, if so, where can it be obtained)? My understanding is that, in general, while a book may reach such an age that it is no longer protected by copyright, an electronic version made of the book may have a separate identity in so far as copyright is concerned. Now, a) I'm no lawyer, so that my understanding may be quite wrong, and b) I'm in any case interested only in the specific case of the LSJ. Is there only a single implementation of the XML LSJ, or different variants, and are any of these freely available?
I'd be grateful for any help on these questions.
Alex Hopkins
Melbourne, Australia