- From: Stian Soiland-Reyes via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2016 23:44:56 +0000
- To: public-annotation@w3.org
@iherman what license should the updated OA vocabulary/ontology file have? It came up as a [problem for Apache Software Foundation](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TAVERNA-927) - as it is unclear if ontologies and schemas are 'documents' (and thus should follow the non-permissive [W3C Document license](https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2015/doc-license) - or 'software' (and thus should folow the permissive [W3C Software license](https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2015/copyright-software-and-document) It is a problem because we tried to include the vocabulary in Apache's source code - but it is against our policy to redistribute non-modifiable source code - only 'binary form' or "download on build" is permitted. However w3c is known for applying a tar-pit for often-requested URLs - so we can't download directly from w3.org. Personally I would hope ontologies and schemas could be under the software license - but this should be made explicit within the ontology/schemas files. Hopefully we'll get it right for the Web Annotation Model ontology! -- GitHub Notification of comment by stain Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/web-annotation/issues/66#issuecomment-193017591 using your GitHub account
Received on Sunday, 6 March 2016 23:44:59 UTC