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Re: [sio-dev] Licensing for shared ontologies

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From: Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 11:03:19 -0700
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This issue was discussed during OntologySummit2008.    (01)

We have a IPR panel session planned (but not scheduled yet) for OOR
that is coming up soon.    (02)

Please stay tuned.    (03)

Regards.  =ppy
--    (04)


On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Cameron Ross <cross@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> One of the things that needs to be considered is the Licensing model to be
> used for ontologies contained within the (an?) OOR.  I'm assuming that the
> intent is to establish a corpus of ontologies that will promote their use
> within both commercial and non-commercial applications.  The Eclipse Public
> License, the Mozilla Public License and the Apache License are
> all amiable to this goal.  However, ontology artifacts are more like data
> than software source code, so these licenses don't necessarily apply well to
> ontology artifacts.  The OpenCyc ontology is released under the Creative
> Commons Attribution 3.0 license
> (see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode). Meanwhile, Adam
> Pease has suggested using the GNU Free Documentation License
> (see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html).
> Should the OOR dictate a particular licensing model?
>
> Cameron.
> --
> Kojeware Corporation    (05)

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