Hi, On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Werner Keil <[email protected]> wrote: > ...AFAIK W3C has a standard license, a quote can be seen under e.g. Xerces > https://xerces.apache.org/ ...
Xerces is a good example indeed, they have a core dependency on the Java W3C DOM API, for which source code is available in a form that's acceptable as a core dependency of an Apache project. Taking DOM level 2 as an example, its source code is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/java-binding.zip If you look in there there's a clear copyright notice and license (*), along with buildable source code that allows one to recreate the w3c dom level 2 jar file. That's what we need for the W3C DDR if you want DeviceMap to be able to release code that depends on it. If such source code is not available, the alternative is for whoever wants those modules out to fork them on github for example, as a companion project that's not subject to Apache requirements. That means changing package and product names to avoid confusion, but that might be the best way to get something out. -Bertrand (*) That license is http://opensource.org/licenses/W3C.php which is listed at http://apache.org/legal/resolved.html as being similar in terms to the Apache License 2.0, so all clear
