Guys, I think that sounds reasonable to me. Joe On Mar 20, 2013, at 7:47 AM, Adam Estrada <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey Martin, > > I think that it might be ok to implement everything as you suggested as long > as you do cite OGC/ISO acknowledgements. Does everyone else feel the same way? > > Adam > > On Mar 20, 2013, at 6:29 AM, Martin Desruisseaux wrote: > >> Hello all >> >> Since the metadata classes to be committed to SIS implement GeoAPI >> interfaces, the Javadoc of those classes reproduce the GeoAPI Javadoc. Not >> necessarily identical (they are sometime extended with SIS-specific >> explanations), but still close. Those Javadoc are themselves derived from >> OGC/ISO specifications (again not identical since they have been adapted to >> the Java world). Most of them are single sentences like "Name and position >> information for an individual or organization that is responsible for the >> resource." >> >> I asked a while ago to some OGC peoples about that, and I have been told >> that this was okay since the goal of the specification authors is to see >> their standards widespread. Furthermore, the original texts are already >> distributed in XML format at http://schemas.opengis.net (see for example >> [1]). So if I'm understanding right, including those texts (in a modified >> form) in the SIS Javadoc could be seen as "fair use" in the spirit of >> standards. Do other peoples have similar feeling? >> >> For the classes containing such Javadoc, I add the following paragraph just >> below the Apache 2 license. Does it sound something okay? >> >> This package contains documentation from OGC specifications. >> Open Geospatial Consortium's work is fully acknowledged here. >> >> >> Martin >> >> >> [1] http://schemas.opengis.net/iso/19139/20070417/gmd/citation.xsd >> >
