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On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 11:06:05PM -0400, David Lenton wrote:
> Good day,
> 
> My name is Dave Lenton, and I'm fascinated by Lojban. A friend of
> mine is writing a story featuring a society that has constructed
> its own, efficient language.  In lieu of creating their own, I
> offered to investigate if Lojban was an option.
> 
> What I'm asking is what is the legal nature of the language. Is it
> under copyright? Creative commons? GNU Free Public License?

A language cannot by copyrighted; Lojban fought extensively in court
to cause that to be true.

In additional, the gismu and cmavo lists are both public domain.
I'm actually not sure about the CLL?, but I don't think that matters
for your purposes.  Have fun, let us know what you come up with.

The main mailing list often likes to help with these sorts of
things.

-Robin