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List:       kde-licensing
Subject:    Re: Licensing of Language Resources
From:       Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date:       2013-04-13 16:27:41
Message-ID: 3605071.5Y9bJtXnUL () xps
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El Divendres, 12 d'abril de 2013, a les 08:18:48, Andreas Cord-Landwehr va 
escriure:
> On Thursday 11 April 2013 23:17:50 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > El Dimarts, 9 d'abril de 2013, a les 22:50:45, Andreas Cord-Landwehr va
> > 
> > escriure:
> > > Hi, I recently started Artikulate (a language learning/pronunciation
> > > training application that currently lives in KDE Edu playground). As the
> > > application becomes more stable, it is a must for this application to
> > > gather a large base of language material. This material consists of
> > > * XML files that specify lists of phrases
> > > * according recordings from native speakers (probably OGG file format)
> > > and will be located due to the expected repository size in an extra GIT
> > > repository named artikulate-data [1].
> > > 
> > > But before starting and to add the first course files (that by their
> > > nature
> > > will/must come from a lot of different people), I want to fix the
> > > licensing
> > > of those to be created files.
> > > 
> > > For this I created in the repository a README file as well a
> > > COPYING.COURSE
> > > file (for all courses) and a COPYING file (for scripts that are used for
> > > maintainance work). My interpretation of the techbase licensing article
> 
> [2]
> 
> > > is that the course files should be licensed under a CC-BY-SA license.
> > > For
> > > the script files I chose the LGPL2.1+ terms.
> > 
> > Are you speaking of point 10? Note the keyword there is "may", you can use
> > other of the acceptable licenses for data too if you want.
> 
> Thanks Albert,
> 
> bullet points 10 and 11 were the points I was thinking about. What is/was
> unclear for me is what the definition of a "standalone media" is. Hence,
> does point 11 apply or not (applying would result in the fact that the data
> "must" be licensed under GPL).
> 
> Actually, I can very well live with the CC BY-SA 3.0 license for the data.

We way *I* read it (note that i did not write it so not sure it matters :D) is 
that if you have data (media file) it can be either CC-BY-SA or all the list 
of licenses in 4 o 5 (which has stuff like BSD, don't see why applying 11 
would result into a forced GPL as you say)

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Greetings,
> Andreas
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