[Corpora-List] unencumbered corpora

[Lou Burnard]

Can anyone point me to any annotated language corpora which are freely
available under something like the GNU Public Licence? All the ones I
have thought of so far seem to be available only under some kind of
complicated licensing scheme which precludes (e.g) commercial
exploitation, unrestricted copying, etc. And cost money.

I'd like to have a corpus of a reasonable size (1 million+ words) in any
  European language (tho English or French are preferable) with some
kind of word-level annotation, which I can hack about, use in teaching,
  and put on a freely-distributable CD, without worrying about copyright
lawyers. There *must* be some somewhere!

It doesn't even have to be in XML -- though it will be when I've
finished with it.

Lou Burnard