Re: Licence of specifications

Sebastian,
the problem has been already reported and the the solution is in the
pipeline as the specs have to comply to
http://www.w3.org/community/reports/reqs/

Please give a little more time to fix the issue.

Thank you
Paolo

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Sebastian Hellmann <
hellmann@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote:

> Hi Robert, dear list,
>
> cc-by-sa-nc is not considered "open" according to
> http://opendefinition.org due to the non commercial (nc) part. Do you
> have commercial interests with the specification? The licence seems to be
> very unlike the W3C, who claims to provide recommendations as Royality
> Free: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/**Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-**
> Licensing<http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Licensing>
>
> Personally, I am always unsure what people intend with adding
> non-commercial to their licence. It implies that I would have  to pay
> something in case I am using any part in a commercial application. Is this
> the intention?
>
> The NLP Interchange format will be CC-BY, which is the licence most
> appropriate for academic content in my opinion.
>
> All the best,
> Sebastian
>
>
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>


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