License?

It would be great if you added an explicit license for the content of this repo, or minimally, a statement inside the content of the RDF

bibo/rdf/bibo.ttl

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           bibo: 
        
             a owl:Ontology ; 
        
             owl:versionInfo "http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/1.3/" ; 
        
             dc:title "The Bibliographic Ontology" ; 
        
             dc:description """The Bibliographic Ontology describes 
        
           bibliographic things on the semantic Web in RDF.  This ontology can be 
        
           used as a citation ontology, as a document classification ontology, or 
        
           simply as a way to describe any kind of document in RDF. It has been 
        
           inspired by many existing document description metadata formats, and 
        
           can be used as a common ground for converting other bibliographic data 
        
           sources."""@en ; 
        
             dc:creator bibo:bdarcus, bibo:fgiasson .

@cthoyt

Hi @cthoyt

Thanks for raising this — it's a real gap, and I agree the repository
should carry an explicit license declaration rather than relying on
inheritance from the DCMI umbrella IP notice.

I've opened dcmi/usage#135 to bring this to the DCMI Usage Board, with
some additional historical context on BIBO's licensing trajectory
and options for the Board to consider.

Linking here for visibility — further discussion is probably best
consolidated on the Usage Board issue.

— Nishad (DCMI Web Manager)

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	bibo:
	a owl:Ontology ;
	owl:versionInfo "http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/1.3/" ;
	dc:title "The Bibliographic Ontology" ;
	dc:description """The Bibliographic Ontology describes
	bibliographic things on the semantic Web in RDF. This ontology can be
	used as a citation ontology, as a document classification ontology, or
	simply as a way to describe any kind of document in RDF. It has been
	inspired by many existing document description metadata formats, and
	can be used as a common ground for converting other bibliographic data
	sources."""@en ;
	dc:creator bibo:bdarcus, bibo:fgiasson .

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