20/11/2006
Since the first Indo-European language project, our Europaio grammatical rules(2004), we have released our main
works with Open Source-style licences. Our primary works are neither software nor
common knowledge: we try to release
original works about Proto-Indo-European and Modern Indo-European, and we want to do it with free and flexible licences.
At first, GNU seemed to be the only alternative to basic proprietary and
completely copyrighted works. We thought they were not designed for our main projects,
though,
as we wanted our works to be completely defended against what we called illegitimate uses,
so we began using Creative Commons.
However, we have learnt to appreciate the advantages of releasing our works with stricter
Libre licences,
such as GFDL or CC-by-sa, as we reused (and still reuse) many free-licensed Indo-European
content, as well as works on Indo-European languages in the Public Domain, and
we want our projects to be collaboration-driven, and to remain free to be copied and redistributed.
Because of that, we are determined to
release our main Indo-European works with more permissive licences, and relicense our old ones
when necessary.
We are also using for some Indo-European content a simpler Libre licence, the
DNGHU Leikentia
(formerly called General Open Academic Licence), designed to be a simple
way to release our works with an easy concept of free (recognition) licence, without all those
legal paragraphs which are not usually read by the average licensee. It is, however, not
designed to fit our main works' legal protection needs.
If you want to read some legal "bla bla" about the Indo-European Language Association, you can read the
following sections, which were adapted from other Internet sites releasing similar free online content to
the public, and not adhering to a simple license.
However, as far as we are concerned, the copy, reuse, redistribution, etc. of
our works about Proto-Indo-European and the Modern Indo-European language
is completely free and will not be monitored, and these sections are here only to protect
ourselves from what we could consider clear illegitimate uses of
our works, as obvious violations of our licences - viz. strict proprietary editions of our works -
and names & trademarks - as e.g. the use of it to promote
completely different language systems or products.
Apart from those bad faith or mal-intention uses, you shouldn't be worried about them.
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