Hi Cameron, Cameron McCormack <[email protected]> wrote on 01/11/2009 10:49:48 PM:
> Hi Michael. > > Michael Glavassevich: > > I was thinking of just linking the file from Batik into XML Commons but > > wanted to check whether the license on it was correct first. Usually > > source files for org.w3c.dom.* have the W3C copyright notice / license > > header. This one has the ASF header. I'm not sure which one should be in > > there. I assume the file wasn't created by the W3C but the interface > > definition would have come from the Element Traversal specification which > > has its own license [5]. Has anyone in Batik land explored this before and > > if so what was the conclusion? > > I was also a little unsure what header to use, since as you say the > Element Traversal specification doesn?t include a separate > ElementTraversal.java file. I don?t remember if I wrote the file from > scratch (by looking at the IDL), or if I copied the text from the spec > and reformatted it. Does it matter, here? > > I should point out also that the W3C Software License is different from > the W3C Document License (which is what, for example, the comments at > the top of the DOM Level 3 Core interfaces state they are licensed > under). I imagine that, since there isn?t any statement to the > contrary, that the inline interface part of > http://www.w3.org/TR/ElementTraversal/ is covered under the Document > License. > > Am I correct in thinking that if the interface is mistakenly covered by > the Document License, that we shouldn?t be including it? If it is covered by the Document License [1] it seems like there's some way to comply by following the three instructions in the license. I've never seen an example of this though. > I am a member of the Web Applications WG, so I will ask on their mailing > list about the licensing of the file. Cool. I also had a technical question about the specification, but I'll ask that on the WG list. > Thanks, > > Cameron > > -- > Cameron McCormack ? http://mcc.id.au/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Thanks. [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-documents-20021231 Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]
