On 01/02/14 06:07, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > (1) What happens with the copyright of works if I extract > information as explained in my previous mail? > (2) What copyright can a word list have at all, given that it gets > mechanically extracted? [...]
I think you'd have to ask a qualified lawyer to get a good answer for these. > (3) The frequency of words is a statistical information, a byproduct > of collecting the data mechanically, without any manual > intervention. Can such information be copyrighted, too? I'm not sure that it can, but in the EU there's something rather similar for non-creative collections of data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sui_generis_database_right > (3) What license do you recommend for a list of German words (as in > our project) enriched with information on weighted hyphenation > points? Contrary to (2) and (3), we enter our information > manually, however, it's just describing inherent properties of > German words. How do you want to license it? Copyleft or permissive? If you're happy with a permissive license, I would personally suggest the CC0 public-domain dedication, which specifically relinquishes database rights as well as copyright: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
