[Xesam] [Oscaf] First shared-desktop-ontologies tarball test

Tue Nov 24 05:48:42 PST 2009

On Tuesday 24 November 2009 09:23:53 Leo Sauermann wrote:
> License:
> Ontology files are both prosa (=text) and software.
> Years ago we thought it would therefore be wise to double-license
> ontologies as CC-BY and BSD.
> this is also the license that was since many months here:
> https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/oscaf/wiki/License
> why didn't you copy it from there? - any reasons to ignore the wiki page
> or weren't you aware of it?

I was not aware of that page. Thanks for pointing it out. I am fine with that 
header, too.

So here goes an updated header (which I will also update on the wiki once 
agreed):

#
# Copyright (c) <year>, <Person or Company>
# All rights reserved, licensed under either CC-BY or BSD.
#
# You are free:
#  * to Share - to copy, distribute and transmit the work
#  * to Remix - to adapt the work
# Under the following conditions:
#  * Attribution - You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the 
author
#    or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or 
your use 
#    of the work).
#
# Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 
modification, 
# are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
#  * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, 
this 
#    list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
#  * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, 
this 
#    list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation 
and/or 
#    other materials provided with the distribution.
#  * Neither the names of the authors nor the names of contributors may
#    be used to endorse or promote products derived from this ontology without 
#    specific prior written permission.
#
# THIS ONTOLOGY IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
# IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
# OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.
# IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
# INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT
# NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
# DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
# THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
# (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
# THIS ONTOLOGY, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
#

> anyway, I am also fine bith BSD, if everyone else agrees that "in the
> future, double-licensing is ok".
> but then, change the wiki page.
> 
> Folders:
> the "base" folder may bite us back later.
> i.e. it contains a mix of ontologies we consider "base" such as dcterms
> and rdf and rdfs.
> someone may ask: why is OWL not there? why is skos not there?
> (etc.)
> so we
> * _may_ change it to subfolders "rdfs" "rdf", "dcterms", etc.... - would
> be more "correct".
> * leave as is and go on - I prefer that. if other people ship other
> ontologies as installation packages, they can come up with other
> top-folder names besides shared-desktop-ontologies

The idea of the "base" folder was to put anything in there that is not 
maintained by us. So maybe "3rdparty" would be a better name although that 
looks ugly.

Cheers,
Sebastian

> name:
> for the sake of saying it: I of course hold the flag up and say "we
> should call them shared-oscaf-ontologies" but I am of course as happy
> with the current name.
> 
> best
> Leo
> 
> 
> It was Sebastian Trueg who said at the right time 23.11.2009 11:10 the
> 
> following words:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > please find attached a tarball with a simple cmake-based build system
> > which installs all ontologies into <PREFIX>/share/ontology using a few
> > subfolders for a cleaner layout.
> > As KDE 4.4 is frozen on Wednesday I need at least a preview release to
> > make kde depend on. Thus, the installation dir should be fixed already.
> > Everything else we can change at one point or the other.
> >
> > So please have a look and comment on:
> > - the installation target dir and the subfolders
> > - the name of the package
> >
> > I will ignore comments about:
> > - the build system (as I said: we can change that and by "we" I mean
> > whoever complains)
> > - the missing documentation (can be added later)
> >
> > We also need to decide on the license. I proposed something modeled on
> > BSD on irc:
> >
> > #
> > # Copyright <year>  <name of author> <e-mail>
> > #
> > # Redistribution and use in any serialization form, with or without
> > # modification, are permitted provided that the following condition
> > # is met:
> > #
> > # Redistributions of the ontology in any form must retain the above
> > # copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
> > #
> > # THIS ONTOLOGY IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
> > # IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
> > WARRANTIES # OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
> > DISCLAIMED. # IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT,
> > INDIRECT, # INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
> > (INCLUDING, BUT # NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR
> > SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, # DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
> > HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY # THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT,
> > STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT # (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING
> > IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF # THIS ONTOLOGY, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
> > POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. #
> >
> > If you have other ideas please say so and post the header to be included
> > in the files. I will not write it for you! This also means that comments
> > like "I vote for a XXX-compatible license" or "let's use license A" will
> > be ignored if they are not accompanied by a piece of text like the above
> > that I can directly copy into the files.
> >
> > Thanks for participating.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Sebastian
> >
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