Hi Alon, Fran, and everyone,
I warmly welcome the release of the Haitian data by the LTI, but I share
Fran's worries about licensing.
Alon writes:
Thanks for the suggestion, but we were advised to leave the licensing
language as is. Our licensing language is effectively equivalent to
the MIT license.and is unambiguous with respect to releasing the data
for any use (commercial or non-commercial).
The license may be free/open-source as worded if it is "effectively
equivalent to the MIT license" (some of the clauses look rather like the
BSD license), but, unlike the MIT license, does not have the advantage
of being certified as *free* by the Free Software Foundation
(http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html) or *open-source* by the
Open Source Initiative (http://www.opensource.org/licenses), two of the
main actors in the free/open-source software scene.
Perhaps it would be nice for the LTI to submit this licence for approval
by these two organizations!
Best regards,
- *Alon*
Francis Tyers wrote:
El dj 21 de 01 de 2010 a les 14:49 -0500, en/na Robert Frederking va
escriure:
The Language Technologies Institute (LTI) of Carnegie Mellon
University's
School of Computer Science (CMU SCS) is making publicly available the
Haitian Creole spoken and text data that we have collected or
produced. We
are providing this data with minimal restrictions in order to
allow others to develop language technology for Haiti, in parallel
with our
own efforts to help with this crisis. Since organizing the data in a
useful
fashion is not instantaneous, and more text data is currently being
produced
by collaborators, we will be publishing the data incrementally on
the web,
as it becomes available. To access the currently available data,
please
visit the website at http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/haitian/
Would you consider also dual/triple licensing the data under an existing
free software licence, such as the MIT licence[1] or the GNU GPL[2] ?
This way it could be combined with existing data under these licences
(e.g. the majority of free/open-source software) and researchers and
developers don't need to hire legal advice to determine if they can
combine their work with yours.
Best regards,
Fran
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Licence#License_terms
2. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
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