<div dir="ltr">Hoi,<div><br></div><div>There is this wonderful English expression: the law is an ass.. Given that the practice of law is different in all countries, it means that the precise legal text of a license is often rephrased to suit the law of the land... Unported means that it is closest to what is intended without any of the special language and whatnots needed for a given jurisprudence.</div>
<div>Thanks,</div><div> Gerard</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 September 2013 22:30, Valerie Sutton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:signwriting@mac.com" target="_blank">signwriting@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">SignWriting List<div>September 12, 2013</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you, Bill, for this CC By-SA logo - that is a great help - I will place it on our sites too.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Maybe you can tell me - I noticed that they have a Creative Commons just for the USA? That struck me as a little odd - take a look at this web page - it has an American flag on it - but should that be our link?</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/</a></div><div><br></div><div>… or is there an international Creative Commons license that would be better since we are in so many countries?</div>
<div><br></div><div>This one says "unported" - whatever that means! … is this the better link?</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Val ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>------</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 11, 2013, at 11:21 AM, Bill Reese <<a href="mailto:wreese01@tampabay.rr.com" target="_blank">wreese01@tampabay.rr.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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Very good. That rounds it out very nicely. I recently did some art
work and also licensed it under creative commons license. You can
use other images that state the license explicitly:<br>
<img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" height="31" width="88" src="cid:part1.05060004.08030901@tampabay.rr.com"> or <img alt="Creative Commons License" style="margin-right:10px;margin-bottom:4px;border:0" height="15" width="80" src="cid:part2.02040504.05070704@tampabay.rr.com"><br>
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<div>Dear SignWriting List Members -</div>
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<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
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<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/" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/</a>
… or … <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/</a></div>
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<div>All this means is that they are free to use….But it states it
in legal talk, on the web… (big smile ;-)</div>
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<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/" target="_blank">SignWriting.org</a>
on the front page. I am hoping this will help ;-)</div>
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<div>And I plan to place it on our other web sites too...</div>
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<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" target="_blank">http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2013/09/signwriting-organisation-adopts-cc-by-sa.html</a></div>
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<div>So what stuff do we have on the web?</div>
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<div>1. Write sign languages in SignPuddle Online, completely
free. <a href="http://www.signpuddle.org/" target="_blank">www.signpuddle.org</a></div>
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<div>2. Free versions of our textbooks, literature and software
are always available for download … <a href="http://www.signwriting.org/lessons" target="_blank">www.signwriting.org/lessons</a>
and <a href="http://www.signwriting.org/library" target="_blank">www.signwriting.org/library</a>
and <a href="http://aslgospel.org/" target="_blank">aslgospel.org</a>
… books in PDF with thousands of pages of reading ...</div>
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<div>3. We also provide learning materials such as PowerPoint
Presentations, videos, and games for download .. <a href="http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/games/" target="_blank">http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/games/</a>
etc...</div>
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<div>4. Information about research, papers, theses and
dissertations related to SignWriting, DanceWriting and
MovementWriting … <a href="http://www.signwriting.org/forums/linguistics" target="_blank">http://www.signwriting.org/forums/linguistics</a>
and <a href="http://www.signwriting.org/forums/research/" target="_blank">http://www.signwriting.org/forums/research/</a>
and <a href="http://www.signwriting.org/library/history/publications/dissertations.html" target="_blank">http://www.signwriting.org/library/history/publications/dissertations.html</a>
(a more detailed listing is coming)</div>
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<div>Our web sites include <a href="http://signwriting.org/" target="_blank">signwriting.org</a>, <a href="http://signbank.org/" target="_blank">signbank.org</a>,
<a href="http://signpuddle.org/" target="_blank">signpuddle.org</a>,
<a href="http://dancewriting.org/" target="_blank">dancewriting.org</a>,
<a href="http://movementwriting.org/" target="_blank">movementwriting.org</a>,
<a href="http://valeriesutton.org/" target="_blank">valeriesutton.org</a>,
and now two new web sites: <a href="http://signwriterstudio.com/" target="_blank">signwriterstudio.com</a>
and <a href="http://aslgospel.org/" target="_blank">aslgospel.org</a>.
Yours to enjoy.</div>
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<div>Val ;-)</div>
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