The setswana.info databases are intellectual property protected by international copyright law, ©2005-2007

What this copyright notice means: The work of the setswana.info Project is the joint intellectual property of the project participants. These participants are scholars and speakers of Setswana from all over the world. The project retains copyrights of all project work in order to protect its integrity for project participants.

Therefore:

1) You (or any individual) may electronically receive or retransmit anything made available to the public by the project, so long as this copyright notice and the list of project participants are attached.

2) You (or any individual) may make and distribute informal printed copies of anything made available to the public by the project. You are encouraged to do so, especially if you are able to distribute copies to people in Southern Africa who do not have Internet access. However, you may not charge anybody any more than it cost you to make and distribute these copies.

3) You (or any individual) may not make any changes to the content of anything produced by the project that you intend to distribute. That is, making small changes and calling the work your own is plagiarism, which is illegal and wrong, while making small changes and still claiming the result to be the work of the project is misrepresentation. If you think that anything produced by the project needs to be changed, you should make your suggestions within the forum of the project, where all suggestions are welcomed and encouraged. Also, by making suggestions for improvements you will be listed as a project participant on all future project documentation. If you wish to make and distribute copies of anything produced by the project, you are welcome to make any cosmetic changes that you would like, such as printing an entire document in boldface, braille, or funny fonts, as long as you do not make any changes to the content.

4) The setswana.info project reserves the exclusive right to publish formally anything produced by the project. Anything from the project that is published formally will include a complete list of project participants. Anyone wishing to publish anything produced by the project must obtain prior written permission from the setswana.info project and agree to submit the final product for review for accuracy. Anyone who wishes to use project work within a larger work of their own, whether for print or electronic purposes (such as creating a spell-checker for a word processor) must obtain prior written permission from the www.setswana.info project and agree to submit the final product for review for accuracy.

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