Re: [Corpora-List] license question

From: Andy Roberts (andyr@comp.leeds.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Aug 18 2006 - 13:52:46 MET DST

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    Alexander,

    I think the Creative Commons licences may be best suited to your needs.

    http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/

    You can in fact mix-and-max too!

    You sound as if you will be happy with the CC Attribution license.

    Regards,
    Andy

    On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Alexander Paile wrote:

    > Hi guys!
    > Could you recommend a nice license to publish a parallel corpus under? Our
    > institute wants to make the corpus available to everybody as freely as
    > possible without legal hassle, but we would like to be mentioned if the
    > corpus is used, especially for commercial products like automatic translators
    > and such. I'm no lawyer. Does GPL or LGPL sound good for a corpus? Any advice
    > would be appreciated.
    >
    > regards
    >
    > Alexander Paile
    > Research institute for the languages of Finland
    >
    >

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