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SUO: RE: Cyc Upper Ontology offer


Dear Graham,

I know what it means for me. There is a new source of material available for
analysis. I have looked at CYC before, and whilst I admire the work that has
been done, I think htat a more principled approach can be taken that will
result in a "next generation" product.

Regards  
      Matthew
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Horn, Graham [mailto:graham.horn@aihw.gov.au]
> Sent: 16 March 2001 01:00
> To: 'Schoening, James R CECOM DCSC4I'; Niles Teknowledge Ian (E-mail);
> West, Matthew MR SSI-GREA-UK; Kent E. Robert (E-mail)
> Cc: Standard-Upper-Ontology (E-mail); 'Doug Lenat'; hovy@isi.edu;
> fritz@cyc.com; lee@textwise.com
> Subject: RE: Cyc Upper Ontology offer
> 
> 
> 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:
> 
> ------------------------
> Cycorp License Agreement 
> ------------------------
> 
> 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 
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> BY SELECTING THE FOLLOWING LINK YOU HEREBY AGREE TO THE THE 
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