<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>September 11, 2013</div><div><br></div><div>Dear SignWriting List Members -</div><div><br></div><div>I am sure you all know that SignWriting is free to use, and so are the images on our web sites. It always has been free to use. But the internet is a strange place sometimes and some people got worried that maybe SignWriting was not free to use…Apparently I needed to state it very clearly on our web sites.</div><div><br></div><div>Gerard is a good friend who has helped me place a statement on our web sites, stating that our images are under the "Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 License" … <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/</a> … or … <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/</a></div><div><br></div><div>All this means is that they are free to use….But it states it in legal talk, on the web… (big smile ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>I never realized I needed such a statement, but I am glad to understand how other web sites do things, so I have now placed this Creative Commons statement at the bottom of <a href="http://SignWriting.org">SignWriting.org</a> on the front page. I am hoping this will help ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>And I plan to place it on our other web sites too...</div><div><br></div><div>Gerard blogged about it on his blog today - Thank you, Gerard!</div><div><a href="http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2013/09/signwriting-organisation-adopts-cc-by-sa.html">http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2013/09/signwriting-organisation-adopts-cc-by-sa.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>So what stuff do we have on the web?</div></div><div><br></div><div>1. Write sign languages in SignPuddle Online,
completely free. <a href="http://www.signpuddle.org">www.signpuddle.org</a></div><div><br></div><div>2. Free versions of our textbooks,
literature and software are always available for download … <a href="http://www.signwriting.org/lessons">www.signwriting.org/lessons</a> and <a href="http://www.signwriting.org/library">www.signwriting.org/library</a> and <a href="http://aslgospel.org">aslgospel.org</a> … books in PDF with thousands of pages of reading ...</div><div><br></div><div>3. We also provide learning materials such as PowerPoint
Presentations, videos, and games for download .. <a href="http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/games/">http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/games/</a> etc...</div><div><br></div><div>4. Information about
research, papers, theses and dissertations related to SignWriting,
DanceWriting and MovementWriting … <a href="http://www.signwriting.org/forums/linguistics">http://www.signwriting.org/forums/linguistics</a> and <a href="http://www.signwriting.org/forums/research/">http://www.signwriting.org/forums/research/</a> and <a href="http://www.signwriting.org/library/history/publications/dissertations.html">http://www.signwriting.org/library/history/publications/dissertations.html</a> (a more detailed listing is coming)</div><div><br></div><div>Our web sites include <a href="http://signwriting.org">signwriting.org</a>,
<a href="http://signbank.org">signbank.org</a>, <a href="http://signpuddle.org">signpuddle.org</a>, <a href="http://dancewriting.org">dancewriting.org</a>, <a href="http://movementwriting.org">movementwriting.org</a>, <a href="http://valeriesutton.org">valeriesutton.org</a>,
and now two new web sites: <a href="http://signwriterstudio.com">signwriterstudio.com</a> and <a href="http://aslgospel.org">aslgospel.org</a>.
Yours to enjoy.</div><div><br></div><div>Val ;-)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><img height="648" width="304" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" id="c0b2bdf7-96d1-453b-a801-79c16e4474bf" src="cid:7528DCF8-3DF4-4240-8593-B4A56F0EB307"></div></div></body></html>