Re: word lists
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
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