On Mar 12, 2004, at 3:18 PM, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
It would be possible and rather simple to add a list of identifiers for the various licenses (maybe using the OSI urls as URIs?) to the project
Aye - or use some of the URI pointers to (our own or OSI) defintiions in RDF as used by creative commons folks.
not sure I want to touch RDF just yet, as you know pretty well, it tends to scare the crap out of people ;-)
Having unique identifiers would be good enough for a starting point.
So, suggestions? should we use OSI URLs as URI or come up with our own?
We could, later down the road, crystallize license combinatory logic into an ontology. That would make soooo many people here at MIT/Harvard soooo happy, but let's not start with flexibility syndrome but let's just solve the problem we are having now, which is the explosion of licensing dependencies.
If we go down this road, official support from the board in communicating with OSI for this licensing identifying mechanism would be extremely helpful.
Anyway, I think we just found the first application of semantic web technologies for apache :-)
-- Stefano.
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