[Corpora-List] license question

[Andy Roberts]

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
>
>