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The giant’s face was without doubt identical to the portrait that Pieter Van Dyke had made of Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1795. An enormous scythe was rushing through the air, and before it reached the first outskirts of the narcissus field to mow it down mercilessly, I fled from my lookout, not without seizing the opportunity to inspect the sign. ‘Daffodils’, it read, in a childish handwriting, ‘made by William Wordsworth’.

General

Most material on this website is protected by copyright. However, you can re-use almost everything through Creative Commons and other permissive licenses, provided you follow some rules such as giving credit to the author. Follow the links below for details.

Text

All text on this site except for the quotations was created by me, Anypodetos (contact). It is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 Licence. The quotations probably fall under the fair use doctrine or some related European copyright limitation, with the exception of the Babel Text, which is in the public domain.

Languages are not amenable to copyright: processes, systems and concepts are not copyrightable, nor are words and names.

Images

General

• The Lemizh logo (the Great White Egret) was created by Danny Woodard from Sherpa Guides. John Lenz from Lenz Marketing kindly gave me permission to use it. The image is copyrighted by them and must not be re-used without their consent.
• The HTML 5 and CSS 3 logos are from the W3C and daPhyre and are available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 3.0 Licence.
• The ‘New’ image on the welcome page is from the Tango Desktop Project, which is in the public domain.
• The map of Lemaria on the welcome page was made with Natural Earth free raster map data.
• The banners on the thanks page make fair use of logos that are protected by copyright laws.
• The ‘under construction’ image is from the ‘Weltchronik in Versen’, c. 1370, which is in the public domain.

Tutorials

• The symbols used in examples, exercises, remarks, etc., are (partly modified) from the Tango Desktop Project. All of these images are in the public domain.
• The ‘loading’ animation is modified from Free SVG. It is also in the public domain.
• The images showing the places of articulation in unit 1 are based on a work by Ishwar, which is available under a CC BY-SA 2.5 Licence.
• The star image in unit 2 is based on an image by A. Fujii (European Space Agency), available under a CC BY 3.0 Licence.
• The keyboard in unit 9 is based on a layout by jacobolus from geekhack.org. I think it is freely available, but please contact me if I’m wrong.
• The beaver in unit 12 is from Collier’s New Encyclopedia, 1921, and is therefore in the public domain.
• The background of the navigation buttons in the tutorial in nutshells is from a photograph by Andrew Butko, available under a CC BY-SA 3.0 Licence.
• The illustration of the butcher and the beaver in nutshell 3 was created by Henry Holiday for ‘The Hunting of the Snark’ by Lewis Carroll, published 1876, restoration by Adam Cuerden. It is also in the public domain.
• The photo of Foucault’s pendulum at the Musée des arts et métiers in nutshell 8 was taken by Jean Champion and made available under a CC BY 3.0 Licence.

Dictionaries and history pages

• The background of the dictionary entries is slightly modified from an image by VictorianLady. It is available under a Pixabay License.
• The diagram of trigonometric functions in the dictionary entry dà. is modified from this diagram by Stephan Kulla, which is in the public domain.
• The photo of the carved squirrel on the history page was taken by Andrew Bowden and is available under a CC BY-SA 2.0 Licence.
• The Penguin Classics edition of the Tlöngö̀l, also on the history page, is based on Penguin covers and makes fair use of the Penguin logo. The painting is ‘Brandung an felsiger Küste’ (‘Surf on a Rocky Coast’) by Andreas Achenbach; it was created in 1835 and is therefore in the public domain.
• The sketch of language groups on the loanwords page I is based on a work by Wikimedia Commons editors, which is in the public domain. The sketch itself was made by me and is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 Licence.
• The photograph of the WCB meeting on the loanwords page II is by Tudor Washington Collins and has been made available under a CC BY 4.0 Licence by the Auckland Museum.

Appendix

• The time zones images were made with Natural Earth free raster map data.
• The Milky Way image on the constellations page is from the Stellarium software, which is available under a GNU General Public Licence.
• The compass rose on the constellations page is modified from Serg!o’s image, available under a CC BY-SA 3.0 Licence.
• On the page of text samples, the beautiful image taken from space is from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, available under a CC BY 2.0 Licence.

All other images are not copyrighted because they do not reach the threshold of originality. Most of them were drawn by myself.

Sounds

• The sound files illustrating pronunciation of the letters were recorded by Denelson83 (vowels) and Peter Isotalo (consonants) and are available under a CC BY-SA 3.0 Licence.
• The files illustrating pronunciation of Lemizh, Turkish, English, French, German, Spanish, and Polish words were recorded by me and are available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 Licence just as the rest of the grammar.

Star data

• The data from which the constellations sphere was created are mainly from the HYG Database by David Nash, which is available under a CC BY-SA 2.5 Licence.
• Additional star names are from the IAU, additional Bayer designations from In-The-Sky.org.

Code

Code for the interactive features of this website and for the Android app displaying the Lemizh time and date was written by me and is available under a GNU General Public Licence version 3. Some of it is published on my GitHub repositories.

Lemizh font: SIL Open Font Licence

The Lemizh font (download) is copyright © 2011 and 2012, Anypodetos,
with Reserved Font Name ‘Lemizh’.

Many of the characters of the Lemizh font are based on the font Doulos SIL, copyright © 1994–2011, SIL International, https://scripts.sil.org/DoulosSILfont,
with Reserved Font Names ‘Doulos’ and ‘SIL’.

This Font Software is licenced under the SIL Open Font Licence, Version 1.1 – 26 February 2007.
This licence is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at: https://scripts.sil.org/OFL.

Preamble

The goals of the Open Font Licence (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership with others.

The OFL allows the licenced fonts to be used, studied, modified and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded, redistributed and/or sold with any software provided that any reserved names are not used by derivative works. The fonts and derivatives, however, cannot be released under any other type of licence. The requirement for fonts to remain under this licence does not apply to any document created using the fonts or their derivatives.

Definitions

“Font Software” refers to the set of files released by the Copyright Holder(s) under this licence and clearly marked as such. This may include source files, build scripts and documentation.

“Reserved Font Name” refers to any names specified as such after the copyright statement(s).

“Original Version” refers to the collection of Font Software components as distributed by the Copyright Holder(s).

“Modified Version” refers to any derivative made by adding to, deleting, or substituting -- in part or in whole -- any of the components of the Original Version, by changing formats or by porting the Font Software to a new environment.

“Author” refers to any designer, engineer, programmer, technical writer or other person who contributed to the Font Software.

Permission & conditions

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of the Font Software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify, redistribute, and sell modified and unmodified copies of the Font Software, subject to the following conditions:

1. Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components, in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.
2. Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled, redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy contains the above copyright notice and this licence. These can be included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.
3. No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font Name(s) unless explicit written permission is granted by the corresponding Copyright Holder. This restriction only applies to the primary font name as presented to the users.
4. The name(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) or the Author(s) of the Font Software shall not be used to promote, endorse or advertise any Modified Version, except to acknowledge the contribution(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) and the Author(s) or with their explicit written permission.
5. The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole, must be distributed entirely under this licence, and must not be distributed under any other licence. The requirement for fonts to remain under this licence does not apply to any document created using the Font Software.

Termination

This licence becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are not met.

Disclaimer

The Font Software is provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to any warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and noninfringement of copyright, patent, trademark, or other right. In no event shall the Copyright Holder be liable for any claim, damages or other liability, including any general, special, indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, whether in an action of contract, tort or otherwise, arising from, out of the use or inability to use the Font Software or from other dealings in the Font Software.

Privacy

This website only uses a single cookie to let you choose between Lemizh and Latin scripts in the Lemizh / English dictionary. It does not use trackers or other snoopers. However, the site search may store cookies if you use it.

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