On Nov 22, 2007 1:14 PM, Valerie Sutton <<a href="mailto:signwriting@mac.com">signwriting@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
SignWriting List<br>November 22, 2007<br></blockquote><div><br>Hello Valerie!<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
Rodrigo -<br>Go right ahead and add all the signs from any dictionary or any book!<br>That will be a blessing.<br><br>No human being "owns a language" or "owns a sign". Copyrights refer<br>to photocopying the "entire book"...for example, you are not allowed
<br>to photocopy the entire book and sell it, because the book itself is<br>copyrighted, but the actual signs in the dictionary are free and open<br>for people to sign with everyday, including writing the signs in<br>SignWriting. They can be written thousands of times without hurting
<br>any book's copyrights...Charles is correct that you just quote your<br>"source" and start writing!<br><br>Afterall, we write with English words, and English words are in<br>dictionaries...we do not have to ask permission to write English
<br>words from Samuel Johnson who wrote the first English dictionary that<br>was popular hundreds of years ago. That would mean no communication<br>in writing at all!<br><br>Charles is correct. Just quote your source and start writing...Do you
<br>know how to write the source in SignPuddle?....Click on Write Words<br>button. Here is how I believe we could write the sources for<br>referring to other published books....see screen capture from the ASL<br>dictionary...
<br><br>and now I really DO have to help my family with Thanksgiving<br>dinner! ;-)))<br><br>But thank you for writing some Brazilian signs in the Brazilian<br>SignPuddle - that will be wonderful!<br><br>And we can create a Portuguese User Interface in SignPuddle later, if
<br>you would like - we will need your help with that...</blockquote><div><br>I have thought you had said "You can create a Portuguese interface...." but now I see you have said "We can create...."<br>
<br>I am going to have some time in the next two weeks so I could do something. :-)<br><br>I thought I would be able to do it now but I think it depends on you too. Well, of course I would like to help.<br>Just get in contact any time you want.
<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><br>Once again, talk to you on Monday...<br><br>Val ;-)<br><br><br></blockquote>
<div> </div></div>-- <br>Rodrigo Ferreira Bagni