Looking at the licensing terms for Pellet 2.0, it is not really about the type of the user, but rather about the application Pellet 2.0 is part of. It can be used for free only if it is a part of an open source application, otherwise, it requires a commercial license.
Irene Polikoff -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Holger Knublauch Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 12:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [tbc-users] Re: xsd:tme and pellet Thomas, when Clark and Parsia announced (a few months back) that Pellet would become dual-license, we made a user survey to find out how important OWL 2 and Pellet are for our user base. It turned out that there was almost no interest in those technologies. We do not bundle any commercial software as part of the TBC download, only drivers to commercial software such as Oracle. It would complicate our licensing model if we shipped Pellet, because depending on the type of user, they would need to acquire license keys first before using Pellet. So if there were more demand we could certainly revisit this decision. We take your vote into consideration but still this does not change our plans yet. If anyone knows of alternative implementations of OWL 2 beside commercial options, please let us know. Holger On Jan 5, 2009, at 3:28 AM, thomas wrote: > > Hi, > > Am 31.12.2008 um 02:19 schrieb Holger Knublauch: > >> We use the final 1.x version of Pellet. We do not plan to include >> newer versions of Pellet because Pellet is not longer free software >> since 2.0. > > > What does this mean for OWL2-support in TBC? Reading through the > documentation of TBC3beta1 I can see no change to the OWL > implementation (still 2007-ish OWL 1.1). Pellet not being free for > commercial use anymore to me doesn't make much sense as an argument in > this case since TBC isn't either (actually much less so). Will you add > another OWL2 implementation to the finished version 3? Is it possible > for me to add Pellet2 to the reasoning chain myself? > While I surely find SPIN interesting, support for OWL2 for me would > definitely be the most important addition to any new TBC version. > > Cheers > Thomas > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TopBraid Composer Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/topbraid-composer-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
