Agreement about usage of PHONRUL


       The German Pronunciation Rule Set PHONRUL is a resource developed by 
       the Bavarian Archive of Speech Signals (BAS) without any 
       foreign funding. Copyright holder is Maria-Barbara Wesenick.
       It was first published in 

       Maria-Barbara Wesenick (1994): Entwurf eines unterspezifizierenden
       Regelsystems der Aussprache des Deutschen als Basis fuer 
       empirische Untersuchungen, Magisterarbeit, Institut fuer 
       Phonetik und Sprachliche Kommunikation, Ludwig Maximilians 
       Universitaet Muenchen.

       In order to protect BAS's and the copyright holder's work 
       involved in generating the German speech pronunciation rules 
       set PHONRUL and for the access to this set, (Institution 
       and Place) agrees to the following conditions:

       1. We will not give away the rule set or parts of it to 
       third party. The copyright and all other rights stay 
       with the BAS and the copyright holder Maria-Barbara Wesenick.

       2. Any published work that involves the usage or exploitation 
       of the rule set in any kind must include a correct reference
       to the first publication of the rule set (see reference above).

       3. If the usage or exploitation of the rule set or parts 
       of it leads to any kind of commercial exploitation (also by 
       third parties), we will grant an adequate fee for the usage to the
       BAS which is subject to negotiation.





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       The following has to be signed solely by scientific 
       institutions for the discounted usage of the resource:

       4. We hereby declare that the rule set disseminated by the BAS
       will not be used for other than purely scientific purposes. 
       Also, there will be no direct or indirect development of any 
       kind of commercially usable applications by exploiting these 
       data. If there is any commercial exploitation of these data in 
       the future by our institution, we will pay the full 
       licence fee published at that time to the BAS without explicit 
       request.


         
        
         

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