[tex-hyphen] [External] Greek Tex hyphenation patterns license

[Dimitrios Filippou]

Hello Arthur,

Many thanks for your quick reply and the explanations. Please add the
MIT Licence to the hyphenation patterns I created for Modern Greek
(monotonic and polytonic) and for Ancient Greek. The original LPPL
licence may also stay there, even if it is redundant.

I'll reply to Google and I'll allow them to use the patterns in the
spirit of Open Source.

Best regards,

Dimitrios

On Thu, 14 Oct 2021 at 11:54, Arthur Rosendahl
<arthur.reutenauer at normalesup.org> wrote:
>
>         Hi Dimitrios,
>
>   Thank you for contacting us.
>
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 01:03:52PM +0000, Filippou, Dimitrios (RTIT) wrote:
> > Is this request legitimate or not? Have other hyphenation patterns been licenced under the MIT License? Please let me know, and I will reply to the original sender accordingly.
>
>   Yes, many other pattern files have been put under the MIT licence,
> sometimes together with another licence.  The full list, not completely
> up to date, is at http://www.hyphenation.org/tex#languages
>
>   I’d like point out two facts, though:
>
>   1. As the original author of the files (up to conversion), you are the
> only person allowed and able to make a decision about the licence.  The
> work that Mojca and I do as maintainers doesn’t make us authors (and
> even if it did in some jurisdiction, we’re not interested in getting
> credit for it).  You’re the copyright holder, you decide on the licence.
>
>   2. As you’ve probably realised by now, your hyphenation pattern files,
> together with the files for other languages, are very interesting to
> several other projects, and all of them have slightly different licence
> requirements.  You can thus be reasonably certain that you will receive
> more such requests in the future.  We are really sorry about that.
> There is obviously nothing we can do to prevent random people from
> contacting you, not even recommend a licence that would suit more
> projects better.  I personally think that the MIT licence is one of your
> best bets, but I’ve been wrong several times about similar questions in
> the past, and I thus really don’t want to make any prediction (except
> the one I wrote earlier in this paragraph: more people are going to
> contact you).
>
> > Incidentally, I'd like my email address in the hyphenation files to change to dimitrios.ap.filippou at gmail.com<mailto:dimitrios.ap.filippou at gmail.com>.
>
>   Thank you, I have updated it in the three files.
>
>         Best,
>
>                 Arthur