SignWriting is free to use =?windows-1252?Q?=85_?=Blog explains this ...

[Bill Reese]

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:
Creative Commons License  or Creative Commons License

Bill

On 09/11/2013 12:57 PM, Valerie Sutton wrote:
> SignWriting List
> September 11, 2013
>
> Dear SignWriting List Members -
>
> 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.
>
> 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" … 
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ …  or … 
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/
>
> All this means is that they are free to use….But it states it in legal 
> talk, on the web… (big smile ;-)
>
> 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 SignWriting.org 
> <http://SignWriting.org> on the front page. I am hoping this will help ;-)
>
> And I plan to place it on our other web sites too...
>
> Gerard blogged about it on his blog today - Thank you, Gerard!
> http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2013/09/signwriting-organisation-adopts-cc-by-sa.html
>
>
> So what stuff do we have on the web?
>
> 1. Write sign languages in SignPuddle Online, completely free. 
> www.signpuddle.org <http://www.signpuddle.org>
>
> 2. Free versions of our textbooks, literature and software are always 
> available for download … www.signwriting.org/lessons 
> <http://www.signwriting.org/lessons> and www.signwriting.org/library 
> <http://www.signwriting.org/library> and aslgospel.org 
> <http://aslgospel.org> … books in PDF with thousands of pages of 
> reading ...
>
> 3. We also provide learning materials such as PowerPoint 
> Presentations, videos, and games for download .. 
> http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/games/ etc...
>
> 4. Information about research, papers, theses and dissertations 
> related to SignWriting, DanceWriting and MovementWriting … 
> http://www.signwriting.org/forums/linguistics and 
> http://www.signwriting.org/forums/research/ and 
> http://www.signwriting.org/library/history/publications/dissertations.html 
> (a more detailed listing is coming)
>
> Our web sites include signwriting.org <http://signwriting.org>, 
> signbank.org <http://signbank.org>, signpuddle.org 
> <http://signpuddle.org>, dancewriting.org <http://dancewriting.org>, 
> movementwriting.org <http://movementwriting.org>, valeriesutton.org 
> <http://valeriesutton.org>, and now two new web sites: 
> signwriterstudio.com <http://signwriterstudio.com> and aslgospel.org 
> <http://aslgospel.org>. Yours to enjoy.
>
> Val ;-)
>
>

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