Re: ontology of (open source) licenses?

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Renato Iannella<renato@nicta.com.au> wrote:
> On 21 Aug 2009, at 02:10, Ben Adida wrote:
>> John Graybeal wrote:
>>>
>>> Does anyone know of a good ontology, umm, highly structured vocabulary
>>> in RDF or OWL, of open source licenses?  Ideally it would be reasonably
>>> complete; not so critical that it be ontologically rich.
>>
>> It's not complete for the purpose , but you can start with the Creative
>> Commons schema:
>>
>> http://creativecommons.org/ns
>
>
> Before you do, read the CC FAQ:
>
>  http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ
>
> "Can I use a Creative Commons license for software?
>  We do not recommend it..."

That doesn't mean you can't use the vocabulary to describe software
licenses, as the FSF recently did, see
http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/2009-06-rdf and
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/15406

Mike
https://creativecommons.net/ml

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