Licensing

[dhimmel]

I don't see a license for Uberon. Since no license defaults to 'all rights reserved', the lack of a license is troubling for reuse. For example, the issue came up for my own project.

If the goal is to create an open resource, I suggest the CC0 (public domain) license. GO uses the CC-BY (attribution) license, but even attribution can be a burdensome stipulation. For example, attribution stacking is problematic and any requirements can discourage reuse.

[uberon]

Likely to be cc by. Perhaps it is possible to license specific subsets as
cc 0 on an as needed basis. Eg deposition in bias. There are Obo guidelines
that take pains to avoid overburdening attribution. Will post later

On Saturday, August 29, 2015, Daniel Himmelstein [email protected]
wrote:

I don't see a license for Uberon. Since no license defaults
http:https://choosealicense.com/no-license/ to 'all rights reserved', the
lack of a license is troubling for reuse. For example, the issue came up
http:https://thinklab.com/discussion/integrating-resources-with-disparate-licensing-into-an-open-network/107#3
for my own project.

If the goal is to create an open resource, I suggest the CC0
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (public domain)
license. GO uses the CC-BY http:https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
(attribution) license, but even attribution can be a burdensome
stipulation. For example, attribution stacking
http:https://wir.okfn.org/2012/01/27/attribution-stacking-as-a-barrier-to-reuse/
is problematic and any requirements can discourage reuse
http:https://opendata.stackexchange.com/a/39/8345.

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[cmungall]

OBO Foundry principles:

http:https://obofoundry.github.io/principles/fp-001-open.html

[dhimmel]

Ah, I see the following line in the OBO, so it looks like Uberon is currently CC-BY 3.0.

property_value: dc-rights http:https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

It may make sense to switch to CC-BY 4.0.

So the preferred method of attribution is through the Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs)? For example:

http:https://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000209

[gouttegd]

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