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A JSON representation of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
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Licensing #3

Closed passcod closed 11 years ago

passcod commented 11 years ago

This project's license is CC-BY-NC, while the original Webster1913 project is in the public domain / under the Project Gutenberg license. Is the intent here to license the JSON data derived from Webster1913, or to license the tools associated?

And if it is the former, who should this work be attributed to? You, the contributors to the Webster1913 project on Project Gutenberg, the original authors, all of the above?

adambom commented 11 years ago

The intent was to license the derived data and associated tooling under CC, while leaving the original Webster works unlicensed, since they are originally in the public domain. Although now that you mention it, if they were originally licensed under the Project Gutenberg license, they should carry that license here as well.

I'm going to make that clear in the license. I think I'll also switch to MIT, since I don't really care about attribution anyway, and that seems to be much simpler.