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]
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 6:17 PM
To: James.Schoening@mail1.monmouth.army.mil; lee@textwise.com
Cc: hovy@ISI.EDU; 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, 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. 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/
-- 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(r)Ontology (collectively, "Material"), you agree to be
legally bound by the following terms:
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