License: Ontology files are both prosa (=text) and software. Years ago we thought it would therefore be wise to double-license ontologies as CC-BY and BSD. this is also the license that was since many months here: https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/oscaf/wiki/License why didn't you copy it from there? - any reasons to ignore the wiki page or weren't you aware of it?
anyway, I am also fine bith BSD, if everyone else agrees that "in the future, double-licensing is ok". but then, change the wiki page. Folders: the "base" folder may bite us back later. i.e. it contains a mix of ontologies we consider "base" such as dcterms and rdf and rdfs. someone may ask: why is OWL not there? why is skos not there? (etc.) so we * _may_ change it to subfolders "rdfs" "rdf", "dcterms", etc.... - would be more "correct". * leave as is and go on - I prefer that. if other people ship other ontologies as installation packages, they can come up with other top-folder names besides shared-desktop-ontologies name: for the sake of saying it: I of course hold the flag up and say "we should call them shared-oscaf-ontologies" but I am of course as happy with the current name. best Leo It was Sebastian Trueg who said at the right time 23.11.2009 11:10 the following words: > Hi guys, > > please find attached a tarball with a simple cmake-based build system > which installs all ontologies into <PREFIX>/share/ontology using a few > subfolders for a cleaner layout. > As KDE 4.4 is frozen on Wednesday I need at least a preview release to > make kde depend on. Thus, the installation dir should be fixed already. > Everything else we can change at one point or the other. > > So please have a look and comment on: > - the installation target dir and the subfolders > - the name of the package > > I will ignore comments about: > - the build system (as I said: we can change that and by "we" I mean > whoever complains) > - the missing documentation (can be added later) > > We also need to decide on the license. I proposed something modeled on > BSD on irc: > > # > # Copyright <year> <name of author> <e-mail> > # > # Redistribution and use in any serialization form, with or without > # modification, are permitted provided that the following condition > # is met: > # > # Redistributions of the ontology in any form must retain the above > # copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. > # > # THIS ONTOLOGY IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``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 AUTHOR 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 ONTOLOGY, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. > # > > If you have other ideas please say so and post the header to be included > in the files. I will not write it for you! This also means that comments > like "I vote for a XXX-compatible license" or "let's use license A" will > be ignored if they are not accompanied by a piece of text like the above > that I can directly copy into the files. > > Thanks for participating. > > Cheers, > Sebastian > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Oscaf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.deri.org/mailman/listinfo/oscaf > -- _____________________________________________________ Dr. Leo Sauermann http://www.dfki.de/~sauermann Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz DFKI GmbH Trippstadter Strasse 122 P.O. Box 2080 Fon: +43 6991 gnowsis D-67663 Kaiserslautern Fax: +49 631 20575-102 Germany Mail: [email protected] Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof.Dr.Dr.h.c.mult. Wolfgang Wahlster (Vorsitzender) Dr. Walter Olthoff Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Prof. Dr. h.c. Hans A. Aukes Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313 _____________________________________________________
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