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License applying to the Dictionary

The "Dictionary" (or Lexicon) in this repository consists in one or more XML files, and any derived by-product or rendering of them in any form, including but not limited to the generated HTML version(s) included in this repository.

This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share-Alike License, version 2.0, with an additional limitation of scope.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Additional limitation of scope:

Sindarin and Noldorin, as languages invented by J.R.R. Tolkien, are his artistic and intellectual property. The editors do not claim any intellectual property on these languages and, as a whole, on this dictionary, beyond the editorial annotations, the arrangement of entries and the encyclopaedic discussions or interpretations appended to these entries. The above-mentioned license applies to such elements only.

J.R.R. Tolkien's texts and books are copyrighted by the Tolkien Estate and/or Tolkien's publishers. As of yet, this material is not approved by the Tolkien Estate or Tolkien's publishers, and is henceforth an unauthorized Sindarin and Noldorin dictionary. This material is however provided under the editors' assumption that compiling, arranging, analyzing, normalizing and annotating entries in order to produce a dictionary for a language, even if it is an invented one, does not violate the copyright of the inventor.

Shall any third party include this material in a derived work, under the above-mentioned license or under any other applicable license, the editors will not be liable for possible infringement of copyright on the derived work. Every derived use of this material is left under the sole responsability of the third party.

Notwithstanding, this material is neither a verbatim reproduction of information from Tolkien's published works, nor a simple rearrangement of such information in a different order. Many entries are deduced from indirect evidences (such as compounds, inflected forms, etc.) or are normalized according to our current knowledge of the Sindarin phonology and morphology. As a consequence, some deductions, as presented by the editors or by other contributors to the dictionary, might actually prove incorrect or inaccurate when new information is published.

Any violation of copyright regarding yet unpublished texts by J.R.R. Tolkien is unintended. The compiler does not have any access to hitherto unpublished texts. Would it be the case, such texts would not be used in the dictionary. Therefore, this dictionary only contains entries based on published texts, either from direct attestations or based on deductions and conclusions drawn from these texts by careful comparisons.

License applying to the Source Code

The "Source Code" in this repository consists in XSLT stylesheets, ECMAScript (JavaScript) code, Shell scripts, CSS stylesheets, with the explicit exclusion of the "Dictionary" as defined and stated above. That is, in other terms and to the extent it clarifies the above definitions, the tools used to manipulate, transform and process the "Dictionary".

The "Source Code" is licensed under the terms of the MIT license reproduced below.

Copyright (C) 1999-2021 The Sindarin Dictionary Project, Omikhleia et al.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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