Lesser General Public License For Linguistic Resources

Preamble

The licenses for most data are designed to take away your freedom to
share and change it. By contrast, this License is intended to
guarantee your freedom to share and change free data--to make sure the
data are free for all their users.

This license, the Lesser General Public License for Linguistic
Resources, applies to some specially designated linguistic resources
-- typically lexicons, grammars, thesauri and textual corpora. 

TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION

0. This License Agreement applies to any Linguistic Resource which
contains a notice placed by the copyright holder or other authorized
party saying it may be distributed under the terms of this Lesser
General Public License for Linguistic Resources (also called "this
License"). Each licensee is addressed as "you".

A "linguistic resource" means a collection of data about language
prepared so as to be used with application programs.

The "Linguistic Resource", below, refers to any such work which has
been distributed under these terms. A "work based on the Linguistic
Resource" means either the Linguistic Resource or any derivative work
under copyright law: that is to say, a work containing the Linguistic
Resource or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications
and/or translated straightforwardly into another
language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in
the term "modification".)

"Legible form" for a linguistic resource means the preferred form of
the resource for making modifications to it.

Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not
covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of
running a program using the Linguistic Resource is not restricted, and
output from such a program is covered only if its contents constitute
a work based on the Linguistic Resource (independent of the use of the
Linguistic Resource in a tool for writing it). Whether that is true
depends on what the program that uses the Linguistic Resource does.

1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Linguistic
Resource as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate
copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the
notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty;
and distribute a copy of this License along with the Linguistic
Resource.

You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and
you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a
fee.

2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Linguistic Resource or
any portion of it, thus forming a work based on the Linguistic
Resource, and copy and distribute such modifications or work under the
terms of Section 1 above, provided that you also meet all of these
conditions:

      a) The modified work must itself be a linguistic resource.

      b) You must cause the files modified to carry prominent notices
      stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.

      c) You must cause the whole of the work to be licensed at no
      charge to all third parties under the terms of this License.

These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If
identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Linguistic
Resource, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate
works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to
those sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when
you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work
based on the Linguistic Resource, the distribution of the whole must
be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees
extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless
of who wrote it.

Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest
your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to
exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or
collective works based on the Linguistic Resource.

In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the
Linguistic Resource with the Linguistic Resource (or with a work based
on the Linguistic Resource) on a volume of a storage or distribution
medium does not bring the other work under the scope of this License.

3. A program that contains no derivative of any portion of the
Linguistic Resource, but is designed to work with the Linguistic
Resource (or an encrypted form of the Linguistic Resource) by reading
it or being compiled or linked with it, is called a "work that uses
the Linguistic Resource". Such a work, in isolation, is not a
derivative work of the Linguistic Resource, and therefore falls
outside the scope of this License.

However, combining a "work that uses the Linguistic Resource" with the
Linguistic Resource (or an encrypted form of the Linguistic Resource)
creates a package that is a derivative of the Linguistic Resource
(because it contains portions of the Linguistic Resource), rather than
a "work that uses the Linguistic Resource". If the package is a
derivative of the Linguistic Resource, you may distribute the package
under the terms of Section 4. Any works containing that package also
fall under Section 4.

4. As an exception to the Sections above, you may also combine a "work
that uses the Linguistic Resource" with the Linguistic Resource (or an
encrypted form of the Linguistic Resource) to produce a package
containing portions of the Linguistic Resource, and distribute that
package under terms of your choice, provided that the terms permit
modification of the package for the customer's own use and reverse
engineering for debugging such modifications.

You must give prominent notice with each copy of the package that the
Linguistic Resource is used in it and that the Linguistic Resource and
its use are covered by this License. You must supply a copy of this
License. If the package during execution displays copyright notices,
you must include the copyright notice for the Linguistic Resource
among them, as well as a reference directing the user to the copy of
this License. Also, you must do one of these things:

      a) Accompany the package with the complete corresponding
      machine-readable legible form of the Linguistic Resource
      including whatever changes were used in the package (which must
      be distributed under Sections 1 and 2 above); and, if the
      package contains an encrypted form of the Linguistic Resource,
      with the complete machine-readable "work that uses the
      Linguistic Resource", as object code and/or source code, so that
      the user can modify the Linguistic Resource and then encrypt it
      to produce a modified package containing the modified Linguistic
      Resource.

      b) Use a suitable mechanism for combining with the Linguistic
      Resource. A suitable mechanism is one that will operate properly
      with a modified version of the Linguistic Resource, if the user
      installs one, as long as the modified version is
      interface-compatible with the version that the package was made
      with.

      c) Accompany the package with a written offer, valid for at
      least three years, to give the same user the materials specified
      in Subsection 4a, above, for a charge no more than the cost of
      performing this distribution.

      d) If distribution of the package is made by offering access to
      copy from a designated place, offer equivalent access to copy
      the above specified materials from the same place.

      e) Verify that the user has already received a copy of these
      materials or that you have already sent this user a copy.

If the package includes an encrypted form of the Linguistic Resource,
the required form of the "work that uses the Linguistic Resource" must
include any data and utility programs needed for reproducing the
package from it. However, as a special exception, the materials to be
distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in
either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler,
kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable
runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable.

It may happen that this requirement contradicts the license
restrictions of proprietary libraries that do not normally accompany
the operating system. Such a contradiction means you cannot use both
them and the Linguistic Resource together in a package that you
distribute.

5. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, link with, or distribute the
Linguistic Resource except as expressly provided under this
License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense, link with,
or distribute the Linguistic Resource is void, and will automatically
terminate your rights under this License. However, parties who have
received copies, or rights, from you under this License will not have
their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in full
compliance.

6. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not
signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or
distribute the Linguistic Resource or its derivative works. These
actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this
License. Therefore, by modifying or distributing the Linguistic
Resource (or any work based on the Linguistic Resource), you indicate
your acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and
conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the Linguistic
Resource or works based on it.

7. Each time you redistribute the Linguistic Resource (or any work
based on the Linguistic Resource), the recipient automatically
receives a license from the original licensor to copy, distribute,
link with or modify the Linguistic Resource subject to these terms and
conditions. You may not impose any further restrictions on the
recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein. You are not
responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties with this
License.

8. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent
infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues),
conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or
otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not
excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot
distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this
License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you
may not distribute the Linguistic Resource at all. For example, if a
patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the
Linguistic Resource by all those who receive copies directly or
indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it
and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the
Linguistic Resource.

If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under
any particular circumstance, the balance of the section is intended to
apply, and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other
circumstances.

It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any
patents or other property right claims or to contest validity of any
such claims; this section has the sole purpose of protecting the
integrity of the free resource distribution system which is
implemented by public license practices. Many people have made
generous contributions to the wide range of data distributed through
that system in reliance on consistent application of that system; it
is up to the author/donor to decide if he or she is willing to
distribute resources through any other system and a licensee cannot
impose that choice.

This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to
be a consequence of the rest of this License.

9. If the distribution and/or use of the Linguistic Resource is
restricted in certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted
interfaces, the original copyright holder who places the Linguistic
Resource under this License may add an explicit geographical
distribution limitation excluding those countries, so that
distribution is permitted only in or among countries not thus
excluded. In such case, this License incorporates the limitation as if
written in the body of this License.

10. The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new
versions of the Lesser General Public License for Linguistic Resources
from time to time. Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the
present version, but may differ in detail to address new problems or
concerns.

Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the
Linguistic Resource specifies a version number of this License which
applies to it and "any later version", you have the option of
following the terms and conditions either of that version or of any
later version published by the Free Software Foundation. If the
Linguistic Resource does not specify a license version number, you may
choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation.

11. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Linguistic Resource into
other free programs whose distribution conditions are incompatible
with these, write to the author to ask for permission.

NO WARRANTY

12. BECAUSE THE LINGUISTIC RESOURCE IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE
IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE LINGUISTIC RESOURCE, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY
APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT
HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE LINGUISTIC RESOURCE "AS IS"
WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING,
BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY
AND PERFORMANCE OF THE LINGUISTIC RESOURCE IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE
LINGUISTIC RESOURCE PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL
NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

13. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN
WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY
AND/OR REDISTRIBUTE THE LINGUISTIC RESOURCE AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE
LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL
OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE
THE LINGUISTIC RESOURCE (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR
DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD
PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE LINGUISTIC RESOURCE TO OPERATE WITH ANY
OTHER SOFTWARE), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED
OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
