<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Markus,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Being not a lawyer I would say the licence applicable to the VODML files should be this of the standards on GitHub ( <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" rel="nofollow" class="">
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a>. )</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Laurent<br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 3 Nov 2020, at 12:46, Markus Demleitner <<a href="mailto:msdemlei@ari.uni-heidelberg.de" class="">msdemlei@ari.uni-heidelberg.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Dear DM,<br class=""><br class="">I'm currently trying to get DaCHS into Debian main. This requires<br class="">that I'm figuring out the licences for all the various files I'm<br class="">distributing.<br class=""><br class="">Although right now, there's no operational necessity to do so,<br class="">because of the various annotation experiments that ran in DaCHS over<br class="">the time, there are a few VO-DML files in the package. These, right<br class="">now, have no explicit licence. I'll *probably* get away with that,<br class="">but, really, it would be better if I didn't have to worry about<br class="">getting caught.<br class=""><br class="">So... can we formulate a policy there?<br class=""><br class="">My take: VO-DML files are close enough to software that we shouldn't<br class="">use CC-X-Y (see<br class=""><a href="https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-commons-license-to-software" class="">https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-commons-license-to-software</a><br class="">for the reasoning). This would leave a software licence, and then<br class="">we're knee-deep in the various incompatibilties. Still, I think some<br class="">version of the BSD or MIT licences might work; perhaps even the LGPL.<br class="">The full GPL we certainly cannot afford.<br class=""><br class="">Or we could go for CC-0, which is compatible to all software licences<br class="">known to humankind (or so I think) and nicely works for<br class="">software-linke things<br class="">(https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0_FAQ#May_I_apply_CC0_to_computer_software.3F_If_so.2C_is_there_a_recommended_implementation.3F).<br class="">It's also what our vocabularies (http://www.ivoa.net/rdf) use at the<br class="">moment (and hopefully even after VocInVO2 is REC).<br class=""><br class="">So... Do people have thoughts on this? Action plans perhaps, even?<br class=""><br class=""> -- Markus<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>