Subject: BNC word lemmatised frequency list copyright status

From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 18:52:03 +0100

Hi.  I came across your page
   http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/bnc-readme.html

I would like to use the lemmatised frequency list as the basis for a
wordlist in a computer program which will generate randomly chosen
passphrases, email addresses, etc. (a bit like this
   http://preshing.com/20110811/xkcd-password-generator
only for British English and maybe with a bigger corpus).

Can you confirm that this is all right with you from a copyright point
of view ?  I see that the licence on the British National Corpus
doesn't prevent this but I think the work you did to assemble the
lemmatised frequency list as described in your paper _Putting
frequencies in the dictionary_ probably means that you have a separate
copyright in the lists on your web page.

I intend to licence the computer program under the GNU General Public
Licence (version 2 or later) - the same licence as used by much Free
and Open Source Software.  And I would want to include the actual
lemmatised list in the source code for the computer program so that
later users and developers can modify the parameters used (eg, the
length of the wordlist used).

So I'm hoping for your permission to distribute lemma.al under GPLv2+.
Thanks for your attention.

Regards,
Ian.

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From: Adam Kilgarriff <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 08:52:49 +0100

Dear Ian,

that's all fine, permission granted

adam

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