[Corpora-List] A list of German N+N compounds and Licensing Questions

[John F Sowa]

On 8/26/2015 8:02 AM, liling tan wrote:
> The source of the list was from my own learning as I read online
> materials and listen to how people talk on the street. How can we
> open-source such materials compiled? Who holds the copyrights to
> such a list?

Authors own the copyright to anything they create, except parts
for which other authors may hold a copyright.  But nobody can
copyright a single word that is common use.  Your list does not
contain more than isolated one-word excerpts from any source.
It would not contain anything that anybody else could claim
a copyright for.  Therefore, you own the copyright to it.
(Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.)

And by the way, your list does look like a very useful resource.
Someone might question how representative the list may be, but not
your right to do anything you wish with it.

John