Re: The Vocabulary, Schema.org governance, etc.

On 22 Sep 2014, at 19:15, Peter Mika <pmika@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
> Exactly for this reason, we are going to great length trying to 'disown' schema.org ...
> The two ways of disowning that we could come up with and implemented so far:

Peter, I don't think that "disown" is the right term, as this implies transfer of ownership (and governance) to another party (or the public domain).
(unless, that was what you were announcing ;-)

In fact, the two updates to the Copyright License and Patent Policy can only be asserted from the _owner_ of the property.

> #1 A Creative Commons copyright license
> #2 Our commitment to the W3C Patent Policy
> The last schema.org TOS update was in fact adding #2. 

It's important to look at _all_ the terms of the TOS. As the second section then goes on and states:

"The Sponsors reserve the right, at any time, with or without notice to you, to make changes to the Schema, including, without limitation, to make changes that result in your existing Schema content becoming non-compliant with the revised Schema. "


Cheers...
Renato Iannella
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