I'd suggest a small tweak. >Users of the affected DeviceMap modules are therefore requested to >make their own decision and seek IP clearance >to ensure is effectively safe for them to use.
There is a formal IP clearance section at ASF where Sling was one of the latest cases: http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/index.html While it is unreasonable to "hijack" the W3C standard (as Reza hinted by "branching it into Devicemap" or so) or any other standard, there could be somebody at W3C or even from that old team to help us if we had to do this for DeviceMap. Until then I guess that sentence will help users especially in large companies to ask their legal team for advice if needed;-) Werner On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Radu Cotescu <[email protected]> wrote: > LGTM. > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz < > [email protected] > > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Here's what I suggest adding to the NOTICE files of modules that > > depend on the W3C DDR APIs: > > > > *** > > This module uses the W3C DDR APIs described at > > http://www.w3.org/TR/DDR-Simple-API/ > > > > The source code of those APIs is available at > > > > http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/DDWG/drafts/api/simple/java/src/ > > > > While it seems reasonable to assume that that source code is licensed > > under the standard W3C > > software license > > (http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231) > > there is > > unfortunately no explicit license information in that source code. > > > > Users of the affected DeviceMap modules are therefore requested to > > make their own decision about > > whether that code is effectively safe for them to use. > > *** > > > > Whoever prepares the releases of those modules will need to make sure > > that's included in their NOTICE > > files, and we don't want that in any module that doesn't use the W3C > > DDR APIs, as NOTICE must be minimal. > > > > WDYT? > > > > -Bertrand > > >
