- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 14:59:55 +0000
- To: Tati Chevron <tati@gotati.com>
- Cc: "schema.org Mailing List" <public-schemaorg@w3.org>
On 8 February 2016 at 10:31, Tati Chevron <tati@gotati.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Could somebody clarify exactly how the licensing agreement described at > schema.org is supposed to apply to websites making use of this standard? > > The schema.org terms of service note that, [the rights are], > "...licensed to third parties under the Creative Commons > Attribution-ShareAlike License (version 3.0)". > > I assume that the intent is to allow unrestricted usage of valid schema > markup, but protect the published standard. > > However, my understanding is that a strict interpretation of this > licensing requirement would: > > 1. Require any website making use of the schema vocabulary to include an > attribution to schema.org. To the best of my knowledge no party involved in the project has ever taken such a strict interpretation. However it is in the nature of schema.org markup that uses of it naturally include URLs such as http://schema.org/ which would already address such a requirement. > 2. Cause the content of any website making use of the published schema > vocabulary to fall under the same license. Similarly, I don't believe anyone reads things that way. Dan > So far, despite much interest in including such semantic markup in all > of my projects, I've completely avoided the standard described at > schema.org for these reasons. > > Is this an open, un-encumbered standard or should I develop my own? > > Thanks. > > -- > Tati Chevron. > http://www.gotati.com/ > >
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