- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.rpi.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:26:39 -0500
- To: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Cc: OWL Working Group WG <public-owl-wg@w3.org>
Received on Tuesday, 22 January 2008 10:19:53 UTC
On Jan 21, 2008, at 6:24 PM, Bijan Parsia wrote: > > > As Rinke pointed out, Manchester syntax is used in Protege and in > TopBraid composer (which is, as you know, a commercial project). ohh, you're right Bijan, good point - we'll have to get both of those organizations to confirm there's no legal entanglements - both are W3C members, so we need to make sure that if either organization has plans to patent anything based on the use of that syntax. that there are no claims - I am not totally up on how patent policy and copyright play together in this stuff - Ivan and Sandro, what would we need to do? > "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?." - Albert Einstein Prof James Hendler http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~hendler Tetherless World Constellation Chair Computer Science Dept Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY 12180
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