Hoi,<br>It is the prerogative of a copyright holder to license as he sees fit and I do agree with you that restricting commercial use is fairly common. The point I am making is that in my opinion it is in the interest of the deaf community and signing research when the best science has to offer is shared as widely as possible. However, at the same time it is not in the interest of the deaf community or science when commercial application then slap their copyright on and prevent further sharing. <br>
<br>When your data is freely available under a CC-by-sa license or "Create Commons attribution, share alike" license, you and your work will be attributed and it is compulsory to share the work that is based on your work This has the benefit that your work gains more social relevance while at the same time ensuring will be better known. Some research at the University of Bamberg said that the research at their uni did not have commercial potential and that restricting commercial use was counterproductive compared to using a "share alike" license.<br>
<br>The SignWriting writing system was originally freely available for everyone and it was not licensed. At this moment there is a license that makes SignWriting explicitly free. The difference was that iSignWriting is now considered to be acceptable as the basis for a Wikipedia.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/21 Rachel Channon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rchannon@speakeasy.net" target="_blank">rchannon@speakeasy.net</a>></span><br>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Hi Gerard, I wonder if you have an example of the kind of
license you are talking about? It seems to me that a restriction to
non-commercial uses is reasonable and reasonably common? Best wishes,
Rachel Channon</span></p>
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[mailto:<a href="mailto:slling-l-bounces@majordomo.valenciacc.edu" target="_blank">slling-l-bounces@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Gerard
Meijssen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 17, 2009 7:26 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> A list for linguists interested in signed languages<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [SLLING-L] SignTyp: Crosslinguistic sign language database
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<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Hoi,<br>
Can you please explain the rationale for restricting the use of this program?
It seems to me that you are better off using a license that makes it compulsory
to share the results. <br>
Thanks,<br>
Gerard</p>
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<p>2009/4/16 Rachel Channon <<a href="mailto:rchannon@speakeasy.net" target="_blank">rchannon@speakeasy.net</a>></p>
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<p>The SignTyp project is pleased to announce that a new version of the SignTyp
database is now available at the Linguistics Data Consortium web site, at <a href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/signtyp/downloads/" target="_blank">http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/signtyp/downloads/</a></p>
<p>A zipped file contains both database and documentation. It is free to all
researchers for non-commercial purposes. SignTyp is supported by grant
BCS0544944 from the National Science Foundation to Drs. Harry van der Hulst and
Rachel Channon at the University of Connecticut.</p>
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<p>SignTyp is a prototype of a crosslinguistic database containing
phonetic-phonological encoding of signs in a variety of sign languages, using
datasets that had already been coded by various researchers. Setting a goal
comparable to, for example, CHILDES (MacWhinney 2000), SignTyp provides a home
for existing datasets from different linguists. A uniform coding system has
been developed which translates the varying coding systems. The primary focus
of this system is to notate form properties of sign that are potentially
distinctive or phonological, so that researchers can analyze these potentially
distinctive values, and determine which elements are actually non-distinctive
or phonetic and which are truly phonological. Multiple languages also
allow the determination of which characteristics are cross-linguistically
distinctive. </p>
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<p>The database currently includes almost 12,000 signs in nine different
language sets, for six different sign languages, from four annotating groups or
individuals: ASL (3 different time periods), Sign Language of the Netherlands,
Korean Sign Language, Japanese Sign Language, New Zealand Sign Language, and
Finnish Sign language (two different time periods). We would like to thank the
individuals who provided us with these datasets: Daisuke Hara, Lorna Rozelle
and the SignPhon group (Harry van der Hulst, Onno Crasborn, Els van der Kooij,
Marja Blees and others – see <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Crasborn, van der
Hulst and van der Kooij 2001</span>). The Hara and Rozelle data were the
datasets they used in their dissertations (Hara 2003 and Rozelle 2003), and the
SignPhon data was used for dissertations by Crasborn (2001) and van der Kooij
(2002). Rachel Channon provided the final ASL dataset based on the Long
(1918) ASL dictionary. The sign sets vary in what has been coded, with some
sets including more information than others. </p>
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<p><b><span lang="EN-GB">References</span></b></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Crasborn, Onno, Harry van der Hulst and Els van
der Kooij. 2001. SignPhon: A phonological database for sign languages. Sign
Language and Linguistics 4: 1/2, pp. 215-228.</span></p>
<p>Crasborn, Onno. 2001. Phonetic Implementation of Phonological Categories in
Sign Language of the Netherlands. Doctoral dissertation, Leiden University, The
Netherlands.</p>
<p>Hara, Daisuke. 2003. A Complexity-Based Approach to the Syllable Formation
in Sign Language. Doctoral dissertation, University of Chicago.</p>
<p>Long, J. Schuyler. 1918. <i>The Sign Language: A Manual of Signs</i>.
Washington DC: Gallaudet College.</p>
<p>MacWhinney, Brian. 2000. The CHILDES project: Tools for analyzing talk.
Third Edition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.</p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Rozelle, Lorna. 2003. The Structure of Sign
Language Lexicons: Inventory and Distribution of Handshape and Location.
Doctoral dissertation, University of Washington.</span></p>
<p>van der Hulst, Harry and Rachel Channon. 2008. Annual Report to the National
Science Foundation for grant 0544944.</p>
<p>van der Kooij, Els. 2002. Phonological Categories in Sign Language of the
Netherlands: The Role of Phonetic Implementation and Iconicity. Doctoral
dissertation, Leiden University, The Netherlands.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">University of Connecticut</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Department of Linguistics, Unit
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