AFAIK W3C has a standard license, a quote can be seen under e.g. Xerces https://xerces.apache.org/
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xerces/java/trunk/LICENSE.DOM-documentation.html?view=log and http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xerces/java/trunk/LICENSE.DOM-software.html?view=markup As we use software, looks like the latter should be added in a similar way like "LICENSE.DDR-software.html" to any artifact embedding the W3C JAR file. We could ask Xerces or other Apache projects how they did this beyond what the obvious license headers might help. There is no more activity and they did not respond in the past e.g. to a question about donating some PHP code (which would still be useful see our language roster;-) so I would not expect either the owner of the GitHub page (who is not the original author) nor people at companies like Telefonica (who may be long gone now btw.) to respond or make any official donation to DeviceMap the way OpenDDR did. We have to use the W3C standard and APIs just like all the other projects, Xerces, Shindig (Open Social is now a W3C standard but still work in progress) and others. Werner On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz <[email protected] > wrote: > On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Werner Keil <[email protected]> wrote: > > ...The W3C may no longer maintain a code repo (if so it probably was CVS > at > > the time, SVN at most;-) ... > > Ouch...what's an API spec worth without published source code? > > > ...the original sources (not recompiled, JavaDoc > > and headers with @author etc. are all intact) were rescued here: > > > https://github.com/fnk/w3c-ddr/tree/master/src/main/java/org/w3c/ddr/simple > ... > > Ok that's better. > > I don't see any licensing information there however, and the source > files include @author tags which make me wary of possible undocumented > copyright ownership. > > Werner, do you think you could talk someone into publishing (or even > donating to us) a version of that source code with a license that's > compatible with the requirements for core dependencies of Apache > projects? Apache License or MIT-style is the simplest. > > -Bertrand >
