SUO: RE: RE: Cyc Upper Ontology
Dear Jim,
Yes this does look very promising.
I have one question though. It is likely we would want to take CYC and not
just translate it into say KIF, but also to adapt it. In software licenses
there are normally restrictions/conditions on doing this. It would be nice
to have a clear statement that there are no restrictions.
Regards
Matthew
===============================================================
Matthew West http://www.matthew-west.org.uk/
Principal Consultant Shell Visiting Professor
Operations & Asset Management The Keyworth Institute
Shell Services International The University of Leeds
http://www.shellservices.com/ http://www.keyworth.leeds.ac.uk/
H3229, Shell Centre, London, SE1 7NA, UK.
Tel: +44 207 934 4490 Fax: 7929 Mobile: +44 7796 336538
===============================================================
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Schoening, James R CECOM DCSC4I
> [mailto:James.Schoening@mail1.monmouth.army.mil]
> Sent: 15 March 2001 23:49
> To: 'Doug Lenat'; Standard-Upper-Ontology (E-mail)
> Cc: hovy@isi.edu; fritz@cyc.com; lee@textwise.com
> Subject: SUO: RE: Cyc Upper Ontology
>
>
>
> Doug,
>
> This is a fantastic offer. I will run this past an
> IEEE attorney
> and see if your copyright is acceptable to them.
>
> Jim Schoening
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Lenat [mailto:doug@cyc.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 6:17 PM
> To: James.Schoening@mail1.monmouth.army.mil; lee@textwise.com
> Cc: hovy@ISI.EDU; fritz@cyc.com
> Subject: Cyc Upper Ontology
>
>
> Ed Hovy indicates that you are interested in
> obtaining the Cyc Upper Ontology. We invite
> you to do so, and use it in your work. Moreover,
> if you visit our website www.cyc.com, you will
> see that we have announced a major release for
> July 1, including a large public release (i.e.,
> an ontology many times larger than the current
> public release, plus the inference engine and
> the development tool suite, all for public use
> which, as is explained below, is almost but not
> quite the same thing as "public domain."
>
> You can download the Cyc Upper Ontology from our
> website, www.cyc.com. This includes about 3000
> terms and about 30,000 simple assertions about the
> terms, such as taxonomic links. Included in here
> are the additions made by Ed Hovy a few years ago
> (aligning the Penman ontology, which necessitated
> adding some terms) under a contract which Ed
> performed for IBM. Depending on the terms of that
> contract, Ed may (or may not) be able to send you
> the mappings between Penman terms and Cyc terms.
>
> The restrictions on the use of our ontology are few;
> you can use it royalty-free, even for commercial
> use, but must preserve our copyright notice and
> acknowledge us in publications etc. For details
> please see http://www.cyc.com/cyc-2-1/
> -- fill out the form and you will see the legal notice
> which you can then agree to (and download the
> ontology) or not (and abort the download.)
>
> Here is what it says:
>
> ------------------------
> Cycorp License Agreement
> ------------------------
>
> READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS BEFORE SELECTING THE LINK AT THE BOTTOM.
>
> By obtaining information, software, and/or documentation of the
> Upper CYC(r)Ontology (collectively, "Material"), you agree to be
> legally bound by the following terms:
>
> Cycorp is providing the Material at no charge. However, it is
> not 'Public Domain.' Please acknowledge Cycorp, 3721 Executive
> Center Dr., Austin, TX 78731 in any use or citation of the
> Material (including, as applicable, as part of your product's
> documentation, packaging, and sign-on message, if said product
> incorporates some or all of the Material). Anyone who obtains
> Material from you to provide to a third party must agree to,
> and reproduce in full, the terms of this paragraph when and
> as they provide said Material to third parties. The terms of
> this paragraph equally apply to renamings and other logically
> equivalent reformulations of the Material in any natural or
> formal language. Cycorp intends to amend and expand the Material
> from time to time; the latest version is available here at
> www.cyc.com for browsing or downloading.
>
> CYCORP, INC. MAKES NO REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTIES
> WITH RESPECT TO THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE DOCUMENTATION,
> SOFTWARE, AND INFORMATION PROVIDED, AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS
> ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY
> PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND SHALL IN NO EVENT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS
> OF PROFIT OR OTHER COMMERCIAL DAMAGE.
>
> BY SELECTING THE FOLLOWING LINK YOU HEREBY AGREE TO THE THE
> ABOVE TERMS.
> =============================================================
> Dr. Douglas B. Lenat phone: 512-342-4001
> Cycorp, Suite 100 fax: 512-342-4040
> 3721 Executive Center Drive email: lenat@cyc.com
> Austin, TX 78731 web: <http://www.cyc.com>
> =============================================================
>