| # Licensing — tiny_schiller |
| |
| This repository contains two separable artifacts under two different |
| licenses. Read this document before redistributing. |
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| ## 1. Source content — public domain |
| |
| Friedrich Schiller died on **9 May 1805**. Under the EU |
| `Schutzdauerrichtlinie` (Directive 2006/116/EC, life + 70 years) and the |
| equivalent term rules in the United States (works published before 1928 |
| are in the US public domain) and the United Kingdom, copyright in |
| Schiller's original works expired no later than **1 January 1876** and |
| has not been recoverable since. |
| |
| The text content of `tiny_schiller.txt` and `tiny_schiller.parsed.txt` is |
| therefore in the public domain and may be freely copied, modified, |
| redistributed, and used for any purpose, including machine-learning |
| training and commercial use, with respect to **authorial** copyright. |
| |
| ### Edge cases |
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| - **Critical / scholarly editions.** Modern critical editions (e.g. |
| *Nationalausgabe*, recent Hanser editions) contain annotations and |
| apparatus that remain in copyright. **None are used here.** The |
| Projekt Gutenberg-DE digitisations use old, non-critical print |
| editions whose body text is plain reprinting of public-domain works. |
| - **Typography and spelling.** Editorial styling, not original |
| authorship; creates no new copyright. |
| - **EU database `sui generis` rights** (Directive 96/9/EC). We do not |
| redistribute Projekt Gutenberg-DE's database structure, metadata, or |
| HTML — only the underlying public-domain texts. See section 3. |
| |
| ## 2. Pipeline code — MIT |
| |
| All scripts, configuration files, build tooling, and documentation in |
| this repository are licensed under the **MIT License** (see `LICENSE`). |
| This includes: |
| |
| - everything under `scripts/` |
| - the `schiller_char/` and `schiller_bpe/` and `schiller_cl100k/` build |
| recipes |
| - this file, `DATA_CARD.md`, and `README.md` |
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| MIT does **not** apply to the textual content; the textual content is |
| public domain (section 1). |
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| ## 3. Source distribution terms — DraCor / GerDraCor (CC0) |
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| This repository intentionally sources its Schiller play texts from the |
| DraCor API (German Drama Corpus, GerDraCor). DraCor distributes GerDraCor |
| under **CC0**, which is designed to be redistribution-friendly. |
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| Accordingly: |
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| - Upstream plain-text exports are retrieved from `https://dracor.org/api/v1/`. |
| - The raw concatenation lives in `tiny_schiller.txt`. |
| - The canonical training artifact `tiny_schiller.parsed.txt` is a |
| deterministic derivative produced by `scripts/parse.py`. |
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| Always verify upstream terms yourself if you need strict compliance |
| guarantees (policies can change). This repo's intent is: CC0 upstream |
| for the digitization layer, plus public-domain underlying works. |
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| ## References |
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| - DraCor (API + project entrypoint): |
| <https://dracor.org/> |
| - GerDraCor corpus landing / docs (CC0 claim is documented there): |
| <https://dracor.org/doc/> |
| - EU Directive 2006/116/EC (term of protection): |
| <https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2006/116/oj> |
| - EU Directive 96/9/EC (database rights): |
| <https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/1996/9/oj> |
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