Hi Cameron, You made a proposal on the webapps [1] list over a week ago with a properly licensed source file. The discussion seems to have died down after that. Is this new source file already usable or does it need to go through some process before it's official?
Thanks. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2009JanMar/0064.html Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] 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? > > I am a member of the Web Applications WG, so I will ask on their mailing > list about the licensing of the file. > > Thanks, > > Cameron > > -- > Cameron McCormack ? http://mcc.id.au/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
