SUO: RE: Cyc Upper Ontology offer

["Horn, Graham" <graham.horn@aihw.gov.au>]

Dear all, 
	.		Marvellous! Thanks indeed to all involved in
achieving this situation. I hope it clears the attorney, so we can use it. 

	.	Once that aspect is cleared up, how will this new turn of
events affect the work of Ian Niles, Matthew West, and Robert Kent? 



Cheers   				Graham Horn
National Data Standards Unit
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 
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-----Original Message-----
From:	Schoening, James R CECOM DCSC4I
[mailto:James.Schoening@mail1.monmouth.army.mil]
Sent:	Friday, March 16, 2001 10:49 AM
To:	'Doug Lenat'; Standard-Upper-Ontology (E-mail)
Cc:	hovy@isi.edu; fritz@cyc.com; lee@textwise.com
Subject:	SUO: RE: Cyc Upper Ontology


Doug,

This is a fantastic offer.  I will run this past an IEEE attorney and see if
your copyright is acceptable to them.  
Jim Schoening

-----Original Message-----
From:	Doug Lenat [mailto:doug@cyc.com] <mailto:[mailto:doug@cyc.com]> 
Sent:	Thursday, March 15, 2001 6:17 PM
To:	James.Schoening@mail1.monmouth.army.mil;
<mailto:James.Schoening@mail1.monmouth.army.mil;>  lee@textwise.com
<mailto:lee@textwise.com> 
Cc:	hovy@ISI.EDU; <mailto:hovy@ISI.EDU;>  fritz@cyc.com
<mailto:fritz@cyc.com> 
Subject:	Cyc Upper Ontology


Ed Hovy indicates that you are interested in obtaining the Cyc Upper
Ontology.  We invite you to do so, and use it in your work.  Moreover, if
you visit our website www.cyc.com <http://www.cyc.com> , you will see that
we have announced a major release for July 1, including a large public
release (i.e., an ontology many times larger than the current public
release, plus the inference engine and the development tool suite, all for
public use which, as is explained below, is almost but not quite the same
thing as "public domain."  

You can download the Cyc Upper Ontology from our website, www.cyc.com
<http://www.cyc.com> .  This includes about 3000 terms and about 30,000
simple assertions about the terms, such as taxonomic links.  Included in
here are the additions made by Ed Hovy a few years ago (aligning the Penman
ontology, which necessitated adding some terms) under a contract which Ed
performed for IBM.  Depending on the terms of that contract, Ed may (or may
not) be able to send you the mappings between Penman terms and Cyc terms.

The restrictions on the use of our ontology are few; you can use it
royalty-free, even for commercial use, but must preserve our copyright
notice and acknowledge us in publications etc.  For details please see
http://www.cyc.com/cyc-2-1/ <http://www.cyc.com/cyc-2-1/> 
*	fill out the form and you will see the legal notice which you can
then agree to (and download the ontology) or not (and abort the download.)

Here is what it says:

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Cycorp License Agreement 
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READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS BEFORE SELECTING THE LINK AT THE BOTTOM. 
By obtaining information, software, and/or documentation of the Upper
CYC®Ontology (collectively, "Material"), you agree to be legally bound by
the following terms: 
Cycorp is providing the Material at no charge. However, it is not 'Public
Domain.' Please acknowledge Cycorp, 3721 Executive Center Dr., Austin, TX
78731 in any use or citation of the Material (including, as applicable, as
part of your product's documentation, packaging, and sign-on message, if
said product incorporates some or all of the Material). Anyone who obtains
Material from you to provide to a third party must agree to, and reproduce
in full, the terms of this paragraph when and as they provide said Material
to third parties. The terms of this paragraph equally apply to renamings and
other logically equivalent reformulations of the Material in any natural or
formal language. Cycorp intends to amend and expand the Material from time
to time; the latest version is available here at www.cyc.com
<http://www.cyc.com>  for browsing or downloading. 
CYCORP, INC. MAKES NO REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTIES 
WITH RESPECT TO THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE DOCUMENTATION, SOFTWARE,
AND INFORMATION PROVIDED, AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND SHALL IN NO
EVENT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFIT OR OTHER COMMERCIAL DAMAGE. 
BY SELECTING THE FOLLOWING LINK YOU HEREBY AGREE TO THE THE ABOVE TERMS.  
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