Re: SUO: Free vs. copyright
I believe it was posted on this list earlier that the alignment of the Cyc
Upper Level with Penman Upper level by Ed Hovy was done under contractual
conditions that the product be in the public domain. So with respect to
this artifact, the copyright issue would appear to be resolved . Unless I
am missing something, the Cyc-Penman artifact is both free and in the
public domain, and thus fully available to IEEE. It preserves the areas
of difference between the two upper levels-- it takes an 'alignment'
versus a 'merger' approach, which assures the transparency between
differing reference objects that nearly every contributor to this list has
now advocated. Though it has limitations that persuaded many of us that
something more was needed, it is an instructive stopping place in any
review of best/existing practices in merger/alignment methodologies.
Lee
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On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Frederick N. Chase wrote:
>
> Jack Park wrote:
> >
> > I saw Doug's slides at KT2001. The license expressed there was GNU. That
> > may soon change to something less onerous.
>
>
> It's my understanding that
> GNU-like and
> Mozilla-like and
> nothing-at-all
> are, roughly, the major options.
>
> Jim,
>
> Are you suggesting that literally NO copyright would be required by
> IEEE?
>
> -Fred
>
>