Hi Nancy, (01)
Yes, you got the IPR Policy right! This is it, at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OpenOntologyRepository_IPR#nid2L0S (02)
As such, (03)
1. Any ontology contributed to the open public instance of OOR will
need to be licensed under either one of the following: (2L0Z) (04)
* the "Simplified (two-clause) BSD License" (FreeBSD License), or (2L10)
* the "attribution only" Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY
3.0 or its successor), or (2L11)
* the content being contributed is in the public domain. (2L12) (05)
2. If SOCoP-OOR considers itself as one of the public OOR instances,
then it should comply with the above. However, that is optional, as it
is also stated that "Each repository using the OOR software can
specify its own set of acceptable IPR content licenses." (06)
... Therefore, if SOCoP-OOR doesn't choose to use the above IPR
Licensing Policy, it can publish it's own, although since "open" is
still a key word, and so calling it an OOR does infer that the content
should still be, somehow, "open" (even if under a different "open"
license.) (07)
That said, proprietary repositories are allow to use the OOR software
too (that's allowed with the BSD software license.) Although, if one
opts to do that, the label "Open" should be dropped from the name. (08)
3.
> If yes, how does one do that? (09)
As stated, any content contribution to OOR should specify an IPR
license. The license information should best be included in the
ontology, as well as at places where an uploaded ontology's metadata
is supposed to be captured. (010)
The plan is for the production OOR code to include a "gatekeeper"
software that enforces the inclusion of such metadata (although the
"gatekeeper" is not yet available on the current SOCoP-OOR instance
yet.) (011)
Thanks & regards. =ppy
-- (012)
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Nancy Wiegand <wiegand@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Peter, Mike, and Gary,
> If I put an ontology into the SOCoP OOR, or if anyone puts any ontology
> into any OOR, does there need to be a written policy somewhere about
> intellectual property rights? I'm looking at the page:
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OpenOntologyRepository_IPR#nid2L0S
> If yes, how does one do that?
>
> Thank you,
> Nancy (013)
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