And who do we put down as current copyright holders? The ones mentioned in the documentation?
Cheers, Sebastian On Monday 13 July 2009 17:37:45 Leo Sauermann wrote: > It was Sebastian Trüg who said at the right time 13.07.2009 16:10 the > > following words: > > Hi guys, > > > > as discussed last week at the GCDS I changed the layout of the ontology > > svn for the OSCAF project: > > > > - trunk > > > > |- ontologies > > | > > |- base > > | > > |- dces.rdf > > |- dcq.rdf > > |- dctype.rdf > > |- rdf.rdfs > > |- rdfs.rdfs > > | > > |- nrl > > | > > |- nrl.trig > > |- doc > > | > > |- nrl-header.html > > | > > |- nao > > | > > |- nao.trig > > |- doc > > | > > |- nao-header.html > > | > > |- ... > > | > > |- draft > > |- tools > > > > The 'ontologies' folder contains all "stable" ontologies which will make > > up our releases. The 'draft' folder contains ontologies under discussion. > > The 'tools' folder will contain the scripts used to generate the docs and > > to verify commits (Ivan took responsibility for creating the scripts). > > > > Each ontology has its own folder which contains the one trig (turtle + > > named graphs) file and the doc folder. The doc folder contains an html > > header which will be used to generate the ontology documentation in > > combination with the comments from the ontology itself. > > > > The trig file contains two named graphs: > > 1. The ontology itself > > 2. the metadata graph which contains information such as the graphs' > > type, the version, the state of the ontology, the last modification date, > > and so on. This information is encoded using NRL and NAO. > > > > The 'ontologies/base' folder contains base ontologies which are not under > > our influcene, i.e. which we do not maintain but depend on. At the moment > > these are all serialized in rdf+xml since that is what everybody seems to > > use at the moment. > > > > I moved the old content to branches/legacy. This also contains the java > > apps used to generate the docs before. Ivan, maybe those are of interest > > to you when creating the scripts. > > > > > > Open issues are: > > * We need the doc generation scripts and a build system (we decided to > > use autotools) > > * The base ontologies are encoded in rdf-xml instead of trig. Should we > > convert them to trig (and add metadata in the process and also have a > > slightly more complex update mechanism if they change) or should we > > keep them in their original form? The latter sparks the problem of > > serialization again: if we only use trig client that need to parse the > > ontologies can depend on that. If not, we need to somehow store which > > serialization is used. In KDE I use desktop files for that. But there are > > probably other possibilities, too. > > converting a XML to N3/turtle is easy, doable online: > http://www.mindswap.org/2002/rdfconvert/ > > > * Copyright: none of the files contain a copyright header atm. We need to > > settle on the licence and then add a header to all files. Also atm the > > documentation stated that the ontos are (C) Nepomuk consortium which > > does not exist anymore. Question is: who is it now? > > (I know we discussed this before but I fail to find the email at the > > moment. I only Nepomuk integration in KMail was already done...) > > I suggest to use a BSD/CC combined header file (as ontologies are not > sourcecode but a bit documentation, > dual-licensing them under BSD/CC-BY should be fine and keep everyone > happy for the future). > > Copyright is always to the individual who created the files, if the > individual publishes the file under BSD/CC, then the name of the > individual is kept. > We had a long discussion about copyright, and Sebastian said that it is > unrealistic to require people to transfer copyright (or relicensing > rights) to OSCAF, so the individuals write their own name into the files. > > I think I already wrote the license headers, but can't find them, so > again, I wrote the license header we should use here: > https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/oscaf/wiki/License > > if you disagree, change this wikipage and send us the reason why. > > """ > Copyright (c) <year>, <Person or Company> > All rights reserved, licensed under either CC-BY or BSD. > > 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). > > Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without > modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: > * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, > this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. > * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright > notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the > documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. > * Neither the name of the <ORGANIZATION> nor the names of its > contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from > this software without specific prior written permission. > > THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS > IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED > TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A > PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT > HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, > SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED > TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR > PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF > LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING > NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS > SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. > """ > > best > Leo > > > Cheers, > > Sebastian > > _______________________________________________ > > Xesam mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xesam _______________________________________________ Xesam mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xesam
