2009/5/29 Sebastian Trüg <[email protected]>: > 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).
1. and 2. sounds great > 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). > " Just to expose myself as "legally challenged" could you clarify that a consumer applies this dual-licensing scheme by selecting either one of the MIT or CC-BY licenses to use the work under? As for the license choices I think they are good. > 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. Uh! This sounds mighty cool! > Is this a compromise everybody can live with? > Please comment. I'm a happy camper :-) -- Cheers, Mikkel _______________________________________________ Xesam mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xesam
