For all those who are interested in licensing GermaNet, please have
a look at the three types of License Agreements for different applications and users, and
decide which type of license is appropriate for you. If you are not sure which type to use, please
contact us.
- Academic Research License Agreement: we offer an academic license to academic
institutions for research purposes free of charge. There are no fees, but in order to secure future
funding for GermaNet we need to provide information about how it is being used to our funding agencies.
To obtain a license, please fill out the
license agreement and
send it to us in an email
with the following information, depending on which application scenario applies to you:
-
GermaNet for Academic Research:
Please send us a description of the intended academic research use, including a URL
to the project page if possible. Also make a clear statement regarding your non-commercial use
of the data and name any project partners, if any.
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GermaNet for Student Projects:
Students who are interested in using GermaNet
for a research project or a thesis project should contact their advisors to obtain a license
for their academic institutions or departments, since we do not give licenses to individual students.
Advisors requesting a license for an individual student thesis or project should include the
student's name, thesis/project title and short description, and thesis type (B.A., M.A., PhD.).
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GermaNet for Classroom Use:
If you intend to use the GermaNet
data for teaching, please provide the course title, instructor(s), and department information.
For each course, students and instructors are required to sign a non-disclosure agreement prior
to classroom use of GermaNet.
- Research and Development License Agreement: This license applies to non-academic
institutions and research consortia that include non-academic institutions for the purpose of strictly
internal research and/or internal technology development. Please
contact us for details.
- Commercial License Agreement: This license applies to non-academic institutions
and commercial enterprises for the purpose of internal research and/or internal technology
development as well as a non-exclusive right to distribute and market any derived product or
service based on the GermaNet data. Please
contact us
for details.