Tools and data that can be shared in the Natural Language Generation community require common standards for data collection, documentation, implementation and licensing as well as a central place to find such resources. We argue for open, free, well-documented and simplystructured resources, and introduce a free and open online repository of NLG resources. 1 Shared tasks and shared resources Wo...

Thomas A. Alspaugh Georgetown University [email protected]

We propose a general framework to attach the licensing terms to the data where the compatibility of the licensing terms concerning the data affected by a query is verified, and, if compatible, the licenses are combined into a composite license. The framework returns the composite license as licensing term about the data resulting from the query.

The absence of clarity concerning the licensing terms does not encourage the reuse of the data by the consumers, thus preventing further publication and consumption of datasets, at the expense of the growth of the Web of Data itself. In this paper, we propose a general framework to attach the licensing terms to the data queried on the Web of Data. In particular, our framework addresses the foll...

This thesis proposes a technique to distribute components of application stacks that have incompatible open source licenses and operationalizes the proposed technique. The proposed technique facilitates the distribution and setup of software components that cannot be distributed due to open source license incompatibilities. The development of the solution suggests that it is easier to solve thi...