Re: Licensing of Language Resources

El Dimarts, 9 d'abril de 2013, a les 22:50:45, Andreas Cord-Landwehr va 
escriure:
> Hi, I recently started Artikulate (a language learning/pronunciation
> training application that currently lives in KDE Edu playground). As the
> application becomes more stable, it is a must for this application to
> gather a large base of language material. This material consists of
> * XML files that specify lists of phrases
> * according recordings from native speakers (probably OGG file format)
> and will be located due to the expected repository size in an extra GIT
> repository named artikulate-data [1].
> 
> But before starting and to add the first course files (that by their nature
> will/must come from a lot of different people), I want to fix the licensing
> of those to be created files.
> 
> For this I created in the repository a README file as well a COPYING.COURSE
> file (for all courses) and a COPYING file (for scripts that are used for
> maintainance work). My interpretation of the techbase licensing article [2]
> is that the course files should be licensed under a CC-BY-SA license. For
> the script files I chose the LGPL2.1+ terms.

Are you speaking of point 10? Note the keyword there is "may", you can use 
other of the acceptable licenses for data too if you want.

Cheers,
  Albert

> What I would like to have is a short ACK that those choices are reasonable
> and confirm with the licensing policy.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andreas
> 
> 
> [1] http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=artikulate-data.git
> [2] http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy