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 and grammars.

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
