On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Ian Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > My understanding from speaking to Dan Bandera (IBM's member of the OSGi BoD > ) is that the OSGi Alliance BoD recognize that qualified not-for-profit > organizations, such as ASF, have a need for OSGi Compliance Tests at > no-charge, as evidenced by the Alliance's JSR 291 TCK license ( see: > http://www.osgi.org/JSR291/TCK#nonprofitlicense ). I understand the Alliance > has work in-progress now that will provide the OSGi Compliance Tests (which > are undergoing OSGi member approval now) for the newly approved and > published OSGi Service Platform Release 4 Version 4.2 Specifications under a > similar license in the near future. If that license turns out to be > acceptable to the ASF then we should be able to evolve to a position where > we won't need a special mailing list for discussing finalized OSGi CTs.
I think ASF can accept fairly restrictive TCK usage licenses, as long as; * No restrictions are placed on the implementation under test, above and beyond the Apache License. * Downstream users that uses an unmodified version of the Apache license inherit the 'FULLY COMPLIANT" (unless proven otherwise) wording in the OSGi agreements. Please not that there is a difference in language from the Alliance between "FULLY COMPLIANT" and "CERTIFIED", where the former is basically "self-certification", such as what has been happening at Felix. IMHO, such is enough for ASF, and if someone thinks that there is a market for "OSGi Alliance Certified", may have a business case to sell such... but is not something ASF should spend money on. Cheers -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java I live here; http://tinyurl.com/2qq9er I work here; http://tinyurl.com/2ymelc I relax here; http://tinyurl.com/2cgsug
