Everyone, Let's not inhibit folks from doing good by making it hard to do so!
Use what is provided to help, if you can, and help others who can. Best wishes. Glenn A. Akers, Ph.D. Language Engineering Company, LLC 215 Washington Street Belmont, Massachusetts 02478 USA www.lec.com mobile +1 617 852 4123 On 1/22/10 1:44 AM, "Mikel L. Forcada" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mt-list mailing list >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mt-list mailing list > > _______________________________________________ > Mt-list mailing list _______________________________________________ Mt-list mailing list
