Re: License for DCAT vocabulary?

On 12/16/2019 12:53 PM, Riccardo Albertoni wrote:
> Hi Alejandra,
> 
> At the moment in the DCAT TTL and the other RDF serializations, we have the
> statement
> 
>> dct:license <
> https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2015/copyright-software-and-document>
> ;"
> 
> If I remember well, we inserted this link when validating of DCAT by mean
> of OOPS http://oops.linkeddata.es/.
> 
> I do not know if we want to change it or if you think the license should
> also be mentioned elsewhere.

Use it. It's the same one as the DCAT2 document itself. You cannot be 
more restrictive than this license in any case. If you have reasons to 
be more restrictive, I'll be curious to know why.

Philippe


>   Cheers,
>   Riccardo
> 
> On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 at 18:25, Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran <
> alejandra.gonzalez.beltran@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>>
>> We have not assigned a license to the DCAT vocabulary and I think it would
>> be important to set one.
>>
>> I was trying to check if W3C has a policy around this, but I found this
>> thread from the PROV list:
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/site-comments/2018Dec/0004.html
>> but it seems that there was no conclusion.
>>
>> FYI, many of the OBO foundry ontologies (http://www.obofoundry.org/) use
>> CC-BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which I think would
>> be an appropriate license?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Alejandra
>>
>>
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