Sounds good. How do we do the update.

Tim managed the errata on github... Or is there a separate mechanism

Paul

> On Mar 21, 2016, at 2:41 PM, Stian Soiland-Reyes 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Yes, in JSON-LD contexts this should always work:
> 
> { "http://purl.org/dc/terms/license";, { "@id":
> "https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2015/copyright-software-and-document";
> },
>  "@context": { "whatever-it": "already-have" }
> }
> 
> The RDF statement of a JSON-LD context document are ignored by consumers.
> 
> I would include also:
> 
> "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/rights": "(c) W3C blabla"
> 
> 
> As we found in JSON-LD Framing you can't do that, as it would impose
> the dcterms:license property on the frame. So here I think using the
> key "__header" instead:
> 
> { "__header": { "http://purl.org/dc/terms/license";, { "@id":
> "https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2015/copyright-software-and-document";
> }
>                         },
>  "the-actual": "frame"
> }
> 
> 
> 
>> On 19 March 2016 at 08:33, Ivan Herman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The only technical problem is that we cannot put it into JSON-LD files, 
>> simply because there is no possibility to add comments to JSON :-(
>> 
>> I guess what this means is that we should add a triple to the RDF namespace 
>> documents. A simple:
>> 
>> <URI_OF_NAMESPACE> <http://purl.org/dc/terms/license> 
>> <https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2015/copyright-software-and-document>
>> 
>> should suffice.
>> 
>> Ivan
>> 
>> 
>>> On 18 Mar 2016, at 20:21, Ivan Herman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I think we should, yes.
>>> 
>>> Ivan
>>> 
>>> ---
>>> Ivan Herman
>>> Tel:+31 641044153
>>> http://www.ivan-herman.net
>>> 
>>> (Written on mobile, sorry for brevity and misspellings...)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 18 Mar 2016, at 19:51, Sandro Hawke <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> The conclusion from the other thread, with Eric, is clearly the Software 
>>>> license.    Should we go edit the the ontologies to say this?
>>>> 
>>>>     -- Sandro
>>>> 
>>>>> On 03/18/2016 11:29 AM, Stian Soiland-Reyes wrote:
>>>>> Hi, in Apache Taverna we try to use PROV, and part of that is to embed
>>>>> https://www.w3.org/ns/prov-o.ttl
>>>>> in our source code to avoid external dependencies.
>>>>> 
>>>>> As we discuss in
>>>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TAVERNA-927
>>>>> .. now we are not sure if we can do this, as it is unclear what is the
>>>>> license of the PROV ontologies and schemas.
>>>>> 
>>>>> They do not have any <!-- style --> headers, and there is no
>>>>> dcterms:license annotatoin.
>>>>> 
>>>>> However
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://www.w3.org/ns/prov/
>>>>> and
>>>>> https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/
>>>>> 
>>>>> says:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Copyright © 2011-2013 W3C® (MIT, ERCIM, Keio, Beihang), All Rights 
>>>>>> Reserved. W3C liability, trademark and document use rules apply.
>>>>> The Document Use Rules
>>>>> https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2015/doc-license
>>>>> are controversial for Apache source code as it forbids modifications:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> No right to create modifications or derivatives of W3C documents is 
>>>>>> granted pursuant to this license, except as follows: To facilitate 
>>>>>> implementation of the technical specifications set forth in this 
>>>>>> document, anyone may prepare and distribute derivative works and 
>>>>>> portions of this document in software, in supporting materials 
>>>>>> accompanying software, and in documentation of software, PROVIDED that 
>>>>>> all such works include the notice below. HOWEVER, the publication of 
>>>>>> derivative works of this document for use as a technical specification 
>>>>>> is expressly prohibited.
>>>>> ..and hence we can't include them in source code
>>>>> repositories/releases, as it would be incompatible with the Apache
>>>>> License.
>>>>> 
>>>>> (including in binaries are OK, but then we have to fetch them during
>>>>> build - which risks hitting the infamous w3.org schema 'tar pit')
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> However the Document Use rules also says:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> In addition, "Code Components" —Web IDL in sections clearly marked as 
>>>>>> Web IDL; and W3C-defined markup (HTML, CSS, etc.) and computer 
>>>>>> programming language code clearly marked as code examples— are licensed 
>>>>>> under the W3C Software License.
>>>>> ( The W3C Software License is permissive and would be OK to include in
>>>>> source code.
>>>>> https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2015/copyright-software-and-document )
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> This list does not include schemas, ontologies or JSON-LD contextx -
>>>>> so it is unclear if these count as "Code Components" or as
>>>>> "Documents".  Do we then have to assume that if they don't have a
>>>>> header or license annotation, then they are under the Documentation
>>>>> License?
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> BTW - here's an example of a schema with the software licence header,
>>>>> which means we can include it in source code:
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/xmldsig-core-schema.xsd
>>>>> 
>>>>> (once you get it out of the w3.org tar pit)
>>>>> 
>>>>> <!-- Schema for XML Signatures
>>>>>   http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#
>>>>>   $Revision: 1.1 $ on $Date: 2002/02/08 20:32:26 $ by $Author: reagle $
>>>>> 
>>>>>   Copyright 2001 The Internet Society and W3C (Massachusetts Institute
>>>>>   of Technology, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en
>>>>>   Automatique, Keio University). All Rights Reserved.
>>>>>   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/
>>>>> 
>>>>>   This document is governed by the W3C Software License [1] as described
>>>>>   in the FAQ [2].
>>>>> 
>>>>>   [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software-19980720
>>>>>   [2] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/IPR-FAQ-20000620.html#DTD
>>>>> -->
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Would it be possible for other schemas and ontologies, particularly
>>>>> under /ns/ to get a similar clarifying license header? Or at least
>>>>> this to be a requirement for any future specifications?
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Another question is what counts as a "modification" - is this any
>>>>> derived work? E.g. changing a Turtle file to JSON-LD? Or generating
>>>>> Java class files with JAXB from an XSD?
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> We're considering a legal workaround by packaging various w3c schemas
>>>>> as Maven artifacts, from Github distributed to Maven Central as JAR
>>>>> "binaries" - but it is even unclear if this would count as a
>>>>> "modification".
>>>>> 
>>>>> (We have a similar issue with OASIS schemas)
>> 
>> 
>> ----
>> Ivan Herman, W3C
>> Digital Publishing Lead
>> Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/
>> mobile: +31-641044153
>> ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0782-2704
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Stian Soiland-Reyes, eScience Lab
> School of Computer Science
> The University of Manchester
> http://soiland-reyes.com/stian/work/    http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718
> 

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