1 From ijackson Fri Aug 30 18:52:03 +0100 2013
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6 From: Ian Jackson <***@slimy.greenend.org.uk>
7 To: adam@lexmasterclass.com
8 Subject: BNC word lemmatised frequency list copyright status
9 Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 18:52:03 +0100
11 Hi. I came across your page
12 http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/bnc-readme.html
14 I would like to use the lemmatised frequency list as the basis for a
15 wordlist in a computer program which will generate randomly chosen
16 passphrases, email addresses, etc. (a bit like this
17 http://preshing.com/20110811/xkcd-password-generator
18 only for British English and maybe with a bigger corpus).
20 Can you confirm that this is all right with you from a copyright point
21 of view ? I see that the licence on the British National Corpus
22 doesn't prevent this but I think the work you did to assemble the
23 lemmatised frequency list as described in your paper _Putting
24 frequencies in the dictionary_ probably means that you have a separate
25 copyright in the lists on your web page.
27 I intend to licence the computer program under the GNU General Public
28 Licence (version 2 or later) - the same licence as used by much Free
29 and Open Source Software. And I would want to include the actual
30 lemmatised list in the source code for the computer program so that
31 later users and developers can modify the parameters used (eg, the
32 length of the wordlist used).
34 So I'm hoping for your permission to distribute lemma.al under GPLv2+.
35 Thanks for your attention.
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70 From: Adam Kilgarriff <adam@lexmasterclass.com>
72 To: Ian Jackson <***@slimy.greenend.org.uk>
73 Subject: Re: BNC word lemmatised frequency list copyright status
74 Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 08:52:49 +0100
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81 that's all fine, permission granted
86 On 30 August 2013 18:52, Ian Jackson <
87 ***@slimy.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
89 > Hi. I came across your page
90 > http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/bnc-readme.html
92 > I would like to use the lemmatised frequency list as the basis for a
93 > wordlist in a computer program which will generate randomly chosen
94 > passphrases, email addresses, etc. (a bit like this
95 > http://preshing.com/20110811/xkcd-password-generator
96 > only for British English and maybe with a bigger corpus).
98 > Can you confirm that this is all right with you from a copyright point
99 > of view ? I see that the licence on the British National Corpus
100 > doesn't prevent this but I think the work you did to assemble the
101 > lemmatised frequency list as described in your paper _Putting
102 > frequencies in the dictionary_ probably means that you have a separate
103 > copyright in the lists on your web page.
105 > I intend to licence the computer program under the GNU General Public
106 > Licence (version 2 or later) - the same licence as used by much Free
107 > and Open Source Software. And I would want to include the actual
108 > lemmatised list in the source code for the computer program so that
109 > later users and developers can modify the parameters used (eg, the
110 > length of the wordlist used).
112 > So I'm hoping for your permission to distribute lemma.al under GPLv2+.
113 > Thanks for your attention.
122 ========================================
123 Adam Kilgarriff <http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/>
124 adam@lexmasterclass.com
125 Director Lexical Computing
126 Ltd<http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/>
128 Visiting Research Fellow University of
129 Leeds<http://leeds.ac.uk>
131 *Corpora for all* with the Sketch Engine <http://www.sketchengine.co.uk>
133 *DANTE: a lexical database for
134 English<http://www.webdante.com>
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142 <div dir=3D"ltr">Dear Ian,<div><br></div><div>that's all fine, permissi=
143 on granted</div><div><br></div><div>adam</div></div><div class=3D"gmail_ext=
144 ra"><br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On 30 August 2013 18:52, Ian Jackson=
145 <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:***@slimy.greenend=
146 .org.uk" target=3D"_blank">***@slimy.greenend.org.uk</a>>=
149 <blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
150 x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi. =A0I came across your page<br>
151 =A0 =A0<a href=3D"http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/bnc-readme.html" target=3D"_b=
152 lank">http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/bnc-readme.html</a><br>
154 I would like to use the lemmatised frequency list as the basis for a<br>
155 wordlist in a computer program which will generate randomly chosen<br>
156 passphrases, email addresses, etc. (a bit like this<br>
157 =A0 =A0<a href=3D"http://preshing.com/20110811/xkcd-password-generator" tar=
158 get=3D"_blank">http://preshing.com/20110811/xkcd-password-generator</a><br>
159 only for British English and maybe with a bigger corpus).<br>
161 Can you confirm that this is all right with you from a copyright point<br>
162 of view ? =A0I see that the licence on the British National Corpus<br>
163 doesn't prevent this but I think the work you did to assemble the<br>
164 lemmatised frequency list as described in your paper _Putting<br>
165 frequencies in the dictionary_ probably means that you have a separate<br>
166 copyright in the lists on your web page.<br>
168 I intend to licence the computer program under the GNU General Public<br>
169 Licence (version 2 or later) - the same licence as used by much Free<br>
170 and Open Source Software. =A0And I would want to include the actual<br>
171 lemmatised list in the source code for the computer program so that<br>
172 later users and developers can modify the parameters used (eg, the<br>
173 length of the wordlist used).<br>
175 So I'm hoping for your permission to distribute <a href=3D"http://lemma=
176 .al" target=3D"_blank">lemma.al</a> under GPLv2+.<br>
177 Thanks for your attention.<br>
181 </blockquote></div><br><br clear=3D"all"><div><br></div>-- <br>=3D=3D=3D=3D=
182 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
183 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D<br><a href=3D"http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk=
184 /" target=3D"_blank">Adam Kilgarriff</a>=A0=A0=A0=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =
185 =A0 =A0<a href=3D"mailto:adam@lexmasterclass.com" target=3D"_blank">adam@le=
186 xmasterclass.com</a>=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=
187 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0<br>
189 Director =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =
190 =A0 =A0<a href=3D"http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/" target=3D"_blank">Lexical=
191 Computing Ltd</a>=A0=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0<br>Visiting Research F=
192 ellow =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=A0<a href=3D"http://leeds.ac.uk" targ=
193 et=3D"_blank">University of Leeds</a>=A0=A0 =A0=A0<div>
195 <i><font color=3D"#006600">Corpora for all</font></i>=A0with <a href=3D"htt=
196 p://www.sketchengine.co.uk" target=3D"_blank">the Sketch Engine</a>=A0=A0 =
197 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=A0</div><div>=A0=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=
198 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0<i><a href=3D"http://www.webdante.com" target=3D"_blank">DA=
199 NTE: <font color=3D"#009900">a lexical database for English</font></a><font=
200 color=3D"#009900">=A0</font>=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0</i><div>
202 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
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