Re: Data Licensing

Hi Clifford,

I believe this FAQ <https://schema.org/docs/faq.html#18> should help:

Q: Under what terms can we re-use this documentation (and schemas,
examples, software)?

As noted in our terms of service <http://schema.org/docs/terms.html> document,
schema.org schemas are made available under the Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike License (version 3.0)
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>. These terms also apply to
the supporting documentation <http://schema.org/docs/documents.html> on
this site and on our blog <http://blog.schema.org/>, as well as to the
markup examples used in this site. The software used for our site is also
available
<https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/blob/master/SOFTWARE_README.md> for
opensource re-use under an Apache 2
<https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/blob/master/LICENSE> license. If
you have feedback on these terms please get in touch
<https://schema.org/docs/feedback.html>.


~Richard



Richard Wallis
Founder, Data Liberate
http://dataliberate.com
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On 26 October 2017 at 04:45, Clifford Snow <clifford@snowandsnow.us> wrote:

> I've been looking over the schema.org website trying to find out how the
> data is licensed. It seems like it should be public domain or something
> similar.  There is a property "license" which is shown as being used by
> 1000 to 10,000 domains. Is there documentation that websites using the
> schema agree to a license?
>
> There is strong interest by some in the OpenStreetMap community that it
> would make sense to get schema data when adding a local business. Because
> OSM can not accept copyright material, we can not pull in data that
> violates our policies.
>
> Having the ability to pull in data would help us improve the quality and
> populate more OSM tags, such as addresses and opening hours.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Clifford
>
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