Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Nancy Ide <ide AT cs.vassar.edu>]

On Jun 6, 2006, at 12:22 PM, Jonathon Blake wrote:

> If you haven't got the time/money to request permission, you do not
> have the time/money to verify that contributors are "native American
> English" speakers.  [Which means that you do not have the time/money
> to do the proposed project.]

This is not a proposed project--it has been on-going for four years,  
funded by the National Science Foundation and ANC Consortium members,  
and we already have 22 million words out. While we have time and  
money to prepare more corpus data, we do not have more time and money  
to do much else at the moment, as we are currently operating on a  
shoestring due to funding cuts in government funding for all but  
military/intelligence research in language processing.

We do not verify that contributors (via the web--I am not talking  
about authors of texts that were, for example, provided by  
publishers, who ensure the authors are native AmE speakers) are  
native American speakers--the point of the material on the web site  
is for self-screening. Anyway, the demographic information they  
provide when they contribute gives us the info we need to determine  
it, if necessary.