[LEGAL-199] W3C Document License and format transformation

• Type: Question
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Sergio Fernández
• Created: 02/Apr/14 15:23
• Updated: 11/May/15 19:10
• Resolved: 04/Apr/14 16:01

Description

For implementing a W3C technology in Marmotta, we are taking the test cases from there:

• The original HTML+RDFa document is https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/ldpwg/raw-file/default/Test%20Cases/LDP%20Test%20Cases.html

• And this is the generated RDF content in Turtle we are caching for implementing our test suite: http://www.w3.org/2012/pyRdfa/extract?uri=https%3A%2F%2Fdvcs.w3.org%2Fhg%2Fldpwg%2Fraw-file%2Fb3683634c29f%2FTest%2520Cases%2FLDP%2520Test%2520Cases.html&rdfa_lite=false&vocab_expansion=false&embedded_rdf=true&validate=yes&space_preserve=true&vocab_cache_report=false&vocab_cache_bypass=false

The document, so the data, is under W3C Document License: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-documents-20021231

Which contains a paragraph which could be problematic:

No right to create modifications or derivatives of W3C documents is granted pursuant to this license. However, if additional requirements (documented in the Copyright FAQ) are satisfied, the right to create modifications or derivatives is sometimes granted by the W3C to individuals complying with those requirements.

The question is: the RDFa->Turtle format transformation is considered a modification? We'd need clarification on this.

Thanks in advance.

Issue Links

• blocks: MARMOTTA-480 Clarify if we can include the LDP Test Cases data