W3C Software Notice and License
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The W3C Software Notice and License is a permissive, BSD-style open source license used by the World Wide Web Consortium for its software and documentation, allowing broad reuse with minimal restrictions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| W3C License | 1 |
| W3C Software Notice and License canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7420802 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: W3C Software Notice and License Context triple: [libwww, license, W3C Software Notice and License]
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A.
W3C Document License
The W3C Document License is a permissive license used by the World Wide Web Consortium for its technical documents, allowing broad use and redistribution while preserving attribution and certain usage conditions.
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B.
W3C Community Contributor License Agreement
The W3C Community Contributor License Agreement is a legal framework that governs how individuals and organizations contribute intellectual property to W3C Community Groups, ensuring proper licensing and rights for use and distribution of those contributions.
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C.
W3C Membership Agreement
The W3C Membership Agreement is the formal contract that defines the rights, obligations, and participation terms for organizations and individuals joining the World Wide Web Consortium, including their commitments under W3C policies such as the patent policy.
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D.
W3C Note
A W3C Note is a non-normative publication by the World Wide Web Consortium used to share ideas, practices, or information that are not on the standards track.
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E.
W3C patent policy
The W3C patent policy is a framework that governs how patents are handled in World Wide Web Consortium standards to promote royalty-free, interoperable web technologies.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: W3C Software Notice and License Target entity description: The W3C Software Notice and License is a permissive, BSD-style open source license used by the World Wide Web Consortium for its software and documentation, allowing broad reuse with minimal restrictions.
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A.
W3C Document License
The W3C Document License is a permissive license used by the World Wide Web Consortium for its technical documents, allowing broad use and redistribution while preserving attribution and certain usage conditions.
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B.
W3C Community Contributor License Agreement
The W3C Community Contributor License Agreement is a legal framework that governs how individuals and organizations contribute intellectual property to W3C Community Groups, ensuring proper licensing and rights for use and distribution of those contributions.
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C.
W3C Membership Agreement
The W3C Membership Agreement is the formal contract that defines the rights, obligations, and participation terms for organizations and individuals joining the World Wide Web Consortium, including their commitments under W3C policies such as the patent policy.
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D.
W3C Note
A W3C Note is a non-normative publication by the World Wide Web Consortium used to share ideas, practices, or information that are not on the standards track.
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E.
W3C patent policy
The W3C patent policy is a framework that governs how patents are handled in World Wide Web Consortium standards to promote royalty-free, interoperable web technologies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
free software license
ⓘ
open source license ⓘ permissive license ⓘ software license ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
W3C License
ⓘ
linked to:
W3C Software Notice and License
|
| allows |
copying
ⓘ
distribution ⓘ modification ⓘ sublicensing ⓘ use ⓘ |
| category | permissive free software license ⓘ |
| copyleft | false ⓘ |
| governs |
documentation
ⓘ
software ⓘ |
| governsProject |
W3C Amaya
ⓘ
W3C libwww ⓘ
linked to:
libwww
|
| hasClause |
disclaimer of warranties
ⓘ
limitation of liability ⓘ |
| hasLiabilityDisclaimer | true ⓘ |
| hasNoPatentGrant | true ⓘ |
| hasNoTrademarkGrant | true ⓘ |
| hasWarrantyDisclaimer | true ⓘ |
| isFSFApproved | true ⓘ |
| isGPLCompatible | true ⓘ |
| isOSIApproved | true ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | worldwide ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| licenseAuthor | World Wide Web Consortium ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | World Wide Web Consortium ⓘ |
| permitsCommercialUse | true ⓘ |
| permitsDistributionOfBinaryOnly | true ⓘ |
| permitsDistributionOfModifiedVersions | true ⓘ |
| permitsModificationWithoutContributionBack | true ⓘ |
| permitsProprietaryUse | true ⓘ |
| permitsSublicensingUnderDifferentTerms | true ⓘ |
| requiresAttribution | true ⓘ |
| requiresInclusionOfLicenseInRedistributions | true ⓘ |
| restriction |
requires preservation of copyright notice
ⓘ
requires preservation of license notice ⓘ requires preservation of warranty disclaimer ⓘ |
| similarTo |
BSD 3-Clause License
ⓘ
linked to:
BSD license
MIT License ⓘ |
| url | https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2015/copyright-software-and-document ⓘ |
| usedBy |
World Wide Web Consortium documentation
ⓘ
linked to:
World Wide Web Consortium
World Wide Web Consortium software ⓘ
linked to:
World Wide Web Consortium
|
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: W3C Software Notice and License Description of subject: The W3C Software Notice and License is a permissive, BSD-style open source license used by the World Wide Web Consortium for its software and documentation, allowing broad reuse with minimal restrictions.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: W3C Software Notice and License