On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Kai-Uwe Behrmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Someone else tries to implement spectral data handling with the XML based > CxF format [1] for Oyranos. The documentation of CxF3 comes with a schema. > The CxF schema license is incompatible with open source. > > As the ISO committee responsible for CxF is meeting tomorrow, can you please explain (in as much detail as possible) what is wrong with the license for the schema? I will be happy to bring it up for discussion and get it fixed. I will point out that v3 is still in development - the current standardized version of CxF is v2. Does the v2 schema, as distributed by the ISO, have the same issue? > My question is, > Can a XML based format be properly implemented without the accompanying > schema? Would it render a great disadvantage to be not able to use and > distribute the available schema because of license issues? E.g. having the > XML Namespace refering to a URL with non redistributeable content. > > The schema is only necessary if you wish to validate that the XML conforms to the grammar. Leonard
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