Hi everybody, after the long discussion on the Xesam list which ended in mid air and a long private discussion with members of the former Nepomuk project and OSCAF we came up with a compromise. Let me mention the most important points:
1. OSCAF There was a lot of concern about OSCAF. However, OSCAF has always been intended to be an open and non-profit organization to give an "official" face to the desktop ontology maintenance. It is not driven by a specific company, nor will it hold any copyright over the ontologies. You can look at it as the KDE e.V. for the desktop ontologies. The "scary" texts on the homepage will be changed, the semanticdesktop.org domain will be transferred to OSCAF. The latter is important since we need the domain to stay with an impartial player. 2. The actual development The actual development will happen on freedesktop.org. We can reuse existing development facilities such as an svn, mailing lists, task trackers, and so on. Whenever a release is to be made the new version will be uploaded to the OSCAF server (might not be that important to "us" desktop developers at the moment but is for semantic web compatibility). 3. Copyright The ontologies will be released under a free licence. Contributors will keep their copyright. We propose a dual MIT/CCBY licensing since ontologies can be seen as creative work rather than real source-code. The following copyright statement could be added to each file: " Copyright (c) <YEAR>, <Firstname Lastname | Company> dual licensed MIT and CC-BY http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ You are free: to Share - to copy, distribute and transmit the work to Remix - to adapt the work Under the following conditions: Attribution - You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). " 4. Maintenance Within the Nepomuk project tools have been developed to ensure the quality and the validity of the ontologies. We propose to install these on the development server (freedesktop) to ensure that - commits do not break backwards-compatibility - commits do not introduce contradictions - etc. Is this a compromise everybody can live with? Please comment. Cheers, Sebastian Trueg _______________________________________________ Xesam mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xesam
