License Family

• CURIE: gmeow:LicenseFamily
• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/LicenseFamily
• Category: class
• Defined by: gmeow:slices/rights
• Box roles: TBox role (What is this?)

The family of a licence — public-domain, Creative Commons, permissive, copyleft, proprietary, or dual. An OPEN value vocabulary; the ontology-side reflection of the config.py license classification, not a duplicate of it.

Structure

Subclass of: gufo:QualityValue

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:LicenseFamily as a specialized kind of gufo:QualityValue. Add statement metadata or a standpoint when the assertion needs provenance, confidence, or vantage.

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use as the open value vocabulary for the licence-family axis — the coarse class (public-domain, CC, permissive, copyleft, proprietary, dual) a licence declares via gmeow:licenseFamily.

Avoid when

• Avoid minting per-family subclasses (families are individuals, Principle 9) and avoid treating it as the runtime import/link policy — that stays exclusively in config.py; this is a RELATED reflection, never a copy.

How to use

• Reference a seeded value (gmeow:licenseFamilyCC, gmeow:licenseFamilyCopyleft, …) from gmeow:licenseFamily; mint a fresh individual if a new family appears, keeping it distinct from the config.py classification.

Examples

• ex:famPermissive a gmeow:LicenseFamily; rdfs:label "permissive"@en.