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[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
September 12, 2013

Thank you, Bill, for this CC By-SA logo - that is a great help - I will place it on our sites too.

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?

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/

… or is there an international Creative Commons license that would be better since we are in so many countries?

This one says "unported" - whatever that means! … is this the better link?

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Val ;-)

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On Sep 11, 2013, at 11:21 AM, Bill Reese <wreese01 at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

> 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:
>   or 
> 
> 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 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
>> 
>> 2. Free versions of our textbooks, literature and software are always available for download … www.signwriting.org/lessons and www.signwriting.org/library and 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, signbank.org, signpuddle.org, dancewriting.org, movementwriting.org, valeriesutton.org, and now two new web sites: signwriterstudio.com and aslgospel.org. Yours to enjoy.
>> 
>> Val ;-)
>> 
>> 
> 

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