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Re:Ontology for the life sciences: genes, proteins, diseases... by dan_fornika on Monday January 20, 2020 @06:26PM (#22102918)
The OBOFoundry has a set of principles[0] that not all ontologies conform to. An ontology project can register with the OBOFoundry through their GitHub site [1] if they follow the principles.

[0] http://obofoundry.org/principles/fp-001-open.html

[1] https://github.com/OBOFoundry/OBOFoundry.github.io

Re:Ontology for the life sciences: genes, proteins, diseases... by jerven on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @02:00AM (#22104848)
It is a combination of licensing. Snomed-CT is there in part via ULMS. But these days there is an official Snomed and Loinc via FHIR maintained by their hosting organizations.