license family

CURIE: gmeow:licenseFamily
IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/licenseFamily
Category: property
Defined by: gmeow:slices/rights
Box roles: RBox role (What is this?)

The family a licence belongs to — one of the gmeow:LicenseFamily values. Functional.

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:License -> gmeow:LicenseFamily; functional

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:licenseFamily from gmeow:License to gmeow:LicenseFamily when the relationship itself belongs in the native GMEOW graph.

Example Snippets

These snippets are generated from canonical slice examples and trimmed to the Turtle blocks where this term appears.

Licensed Dataset

Source: slices/core/rights/examples/licensed-dataset.ttl
Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-rights-examples-licensed-dataset

# --- The licence: an Agreement, aligned to CC by REFERENCE (P5), not equated.
ex:ccbync a gmeow:License ;
    rdfs:label          "CC BY-NC 4.0"@en ;
    gmeow:licensor      ex:researcher ;
    gmeow:licensedWork  ex:dataset ;
    gmeow:licenseFamily gmeow:licenseFamilyCC ;
    gmeow:spdxLicenseId "CC-BY-NC-4.0" .

Lillith Dataset

Source: slices/extensions/graphrag/examples/lillith-dataset.ttl
Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-extensions-graphrag-examples-lillith-dataset

ex:lillith-license a gmeow:License ;
    rdfs:label "CC BY 4.0"@en ;
    gmeow:licensor ex:blackcat ;
    gmeow:licensedWork ex:lillith-benchmark ;
    gmeow:licenseFamily gmeow:licenseFamilyCC ;
    gmeow:spdxLicenseId "CC-BY-4.0" ;
    gmeow:spdxLicenseName "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International" .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:License, gmeow:LicenseFamily

Usage Advice

Use when

Use to classify a licence into its family — public-domain, Creative Commons, permissive, copyleft, proprietary, or dual — for coarse-grained filtering and policy decisions.

Avoid when

Avoid using it as the precise licence identity (that is gmeow:spdxLicenseId) and avoid a free-text family; reference a gmeow:LicenseFamily value, which mirrors but never duplicates the config.py import policy.

How to use

Set gmeow:licenseFamily once per License (functional) to a gmeow:LicenseFamily value alongside the precise gmeow:spdxLicenseId.

Examples

ex:gplLicense gmeow:licenseFamily gmeow:licenseFamilyCopyleft.