Property Rights

Ontomatica will acquire, configure, test and optimize infrastructure services.

Ontomatica will transfer infrastructure ownership and related infrastructure licenses to USDA at release 3.

Design of and processes used by Ontomatica application services € are a trade secret € and protected by Copyright. Ontomatica grants USDA/ARS a perpetual, non-transferable license to use application services. License includes rights for USDA customers to use complete system. USDA may wish to require customers to acknowledge rights and warranties before using complete system.

Data deposits will be available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0).

AFDSI Vocal € terms are available under Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication license (CC0 1.0). No copyright is associated with Vocal terms.

Other terms used by Ontomatica applications, such as terms defined by National Center for Biomedical Ontology, also are copyright-free and available under CC0 1.0.