Rigo, can you, please, answer Stian's question? This is related to the licensing of vocabularies, and me acting as a go-between would just distort the message…
Thanks Ivan > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Stian Soiland-Reyes <st...@apache.org> > Subject: Fwd: [jira] [Commented] (LEGAL-241) Is W3C Community Contributor > License Agreement a Category-A license? > Date: 10 March 2016 at 10:28:49 GMT+1 > To: Ivan Herman <i...@w3.org> > X-W3C-Hub-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.4 > Message-Id: > <cambjemv+jikxgc0jviuuztk_ysghcxpq_xobzfus-pvbamv...@mail.gmail.com> > > Hi, Ivan, > > Who at the w3c would be best to help Apache Software Foundation understand > the W3C Community Contributors License? (See below) > > We are trying to figure out if things like oa.rdf can be included in Apache > source code releases. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Craig L Russell (JIRA)" <j...@apache.org <mailto:j...@apache.org>> > Date: 10 Mar 2016 04:51 > Subject: [jira] [Commented] (LEGAL-241) Is W3C Community Contributor License > Agreement a Category-A license? > To: <st...@apache.org <mailto:st...@apache.org>> > Cc: > > > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-241?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=15188674#comment-15188674 > > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-241?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=15188674#comment-15188674> > ] > > Craig L Russell commented on LEGAL-241: > --------------------------------------- > > There is some background here: > https://www.w3.org/community/about/agreements/summary/ > <https://www.w3.org/community/about/agreements/summary/> > > The licensing of W3C works is a two step process which involves two different > licenses. > > W3C COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTOR LICENSE AGREEMENT (CLA) while the specification is > under development > > W3C COMMUNITY FINAL SPECIFICATION AGREEMENT once the specification is > complete. > > Maybe someone better versed in W3C operations can shed some light. > > > Is W3C Community Contributor License Agreement a Category-A license? > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Key: LEGAL-241 > > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-241 > > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-241> > > Project: Legal Discuss > > Issue Type: Question > > Reporter: Stian Soiland-Reyes > > > > In TAVERNA-932 we wonder if our use of > > https://github.com/apache/incubator-taverna-language/blob/0.15.0-incubating/taverna-robundle/src/main/resources/ontologies/oa.rdf > > > > <https://github.com/apache/incubator-taverna-language/blob/0.15.0-incubating/taverna-robundle/src/main/resources/ontologies/oa.rdf> > > is considered Category-A license. > > Note that the upstream file https://www.w3.org/ns/oa/oa.rdf > > <https://www.w3.org/ns/oa/oa.rdf> (which must be fetched with {{curl -H > > Accept: application/rdf+xml}}) does not include file-headers - I added > > those based on the [parent > > document|http://www.openannotation.org/spec/core/20130208/index.html > > <http://www.openannotation.org/spec/core/20130208/index.html>] which says: > > {quote} > > Copyright © 2012-2013 the Contributors to the Open Annotation Core Data > > Model Specification, published by the Open Annotation Community Group under > > the W3C Community Contributor License Agreement (CLA). A human-readable > > summary is available. > > {quote} > > It is a bit unclear what the license for downstream readers actually is, as > > that [W3C Community Contributor License > > Agreement|https://www.w3.org/community/about/agreements/cla/ > > <https://www.w3.org/community/about/agreements/cla/>] is mainly written for > > W3C Community Group contributors (which incidentally includes myself). > > However it says contributions include: > > {quote} > > 2. Copyrights. > > 2.1. Copyright Grant. I grant to you a perpetual (for the duration of > > the applicable copyright), worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, > > royalty-free, copyright license, without any obligation for accounting to > > me, to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly > > perform, sublicense, distribute, and implement any Contribution to the full > > extent of my copyright interest in the Contribution. > > 2.2. Attribution. As a condition of the copyright grant, you must > > include an attribution to the Specification in any derivative work you make > > based on the Specification. That attribution must include, at minimum, the > > Specification name and version number. > > {quote} > > which to me sounds like a permissive category-A BSD-like license. > > What is the view of LEGAL? > > > > -- > This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA > (v6.3.4#6332) ---- Ivan Herman, W3C Digital Publishing Lead Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ mobile: +31-641044153 ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0782-2704
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