On 12/21/2010 00:58, Jörn Kottmann wrote: > Hello, > > to which extent is it allowed to copy over a corpus description > from the website to our documentation? I noticed that > the documentation for the Arvores Deitadas corpus > contains snippets which are a few sentences long from > the project website. > > That can be seen here: > http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/opennlp/index.php?title=Arvores_Deitadas > > Would it be ok to just include it in the documentation which will be > released as part of our first release? > > Thanks, > Jörn
It is my understanding that from a purely copyright perspective, this should be fine as long as it's clearly marked as a quote. Maybe putting it in italics or quotes would be good (in addition to naming the source). IANAL, but a couple of sentences really should be no problem. --Thilo
