Re: Question about schema.org in a triple store?

On 15 Jul 2014, at 23:07, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 15 July 2014 22:53, martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote:
> I think it says pretty clearly that any third party ("and other third parties") is granted a CC BY-SA 3.0 license:
> 
> Thanks Martin, that's very helpful.  Tho, I'm not sure I expressed my question clearly.
> 
> Are you saying that when using schema.org predicates, for example, in non HTTP context, e.g. such as your own triple store, you are automatically deemed a "third party", and therefore, bound by the license?  
> 
> Alternatively, is it only when you publish those predicted on the web?


I think we are getting into difficult legal grounds, which are hard to discuss in this forum. The core problem seems to be whether using keywords and/or conceptual elements from schema.org in any kind of software is "usage" and whether this requires permission from the sponsors of schema.org or third parties.

It is a very interesting question whether "using" an ontology in a piece of program code can have an effect on the licensing of the resulting code. Do you have to share-alike your source code if you mention a certain ontology in a SPARQL query? Or if you use the ontology as the core conceptual data model of your application?

A meaningful analysis will require a lawyer.

But maybe we can take this a suggestion to the sponsors of schema.org to clarify the legal implications of using schema.org inside software?


Martin

Received on Tuesday, 15 July 2014 21:40:51 UTC