Re: The Vocabulary, Schema.org governance, etc.

Peter,

 I will check again with our lawyers, but I am pretty sure that we
cannot "require
that no future use be made of the schema.org vocabulary".

guha

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider <
pfpschneider@gmail.com> wrote:

> I very much agree with the point made here.
>
> Further, my reading of the terms indicates that the sponsors could turn
> off schema.org and also require that no future use be made of the
> schema.org vocabulary.  (Of course, I am not a lawyer, so my
> interpretation of the English words in the terms might not completely
> correspond to their meaning in LegalSpeak.)
>
> peter
>
>
>
> On 09/23/2014 05:30 PM, Renato Iannella wrote:
>
>>
>> You have misinterpreted the point Dan/Peter.
>>
>> We _all_ know things change - that's why an open and transparent
>> Governance process is important.
>>
>> If something changes, then there is a clear and open process on why/how
>> this is handled, and the impact to all stakeholders.
>>
>> The "with or without notice to you" approach - entrenched into the legal
>> Terms of Service - is not such an open process.
>>
>> Cheers...
>> Renato Iannella
>> Semantic Identity
>> http://semanticidentity.com
>> Mobile: +61 4 1313 2206
>>
>>
>>

Received on Wednesday, 24 September 2014 14:35:37 UTC