Weird, hopefully it's only a side-effect of Hurricane Arthur, but all of W3C.org consistently seems DOWN right now, including the DDR API standard history.
Another reason to not rely on e.g. the JAR the site also did provide for historical reasons, but it seems better to find a BINARY distro than having to build it from a codebase like the one on GitHub (or elsewhere, not sure if W3C itself still has it, but AFAIK just like other standards like HTML5 you are free to use them without restriction or royalties[?]) On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Werner Keil <[email protected]> wrote: > It is simply a clone of this: > https://github.com/fnk/w3c-ddr > > Essentially we would not need the source form in our SVN but the real key > problem is, whether or not a BINARY Maven artifact can be provided in a > proper way? > > So far nobody bothered putting it on MavenCentral. Unless there is a legal > reason W3C would prohibit that, I guess they just didn't see Java or Maven > as important. > So consider it a "mirror" of the Git repo. If the DeviceMap build system > was flexible enough to grab it from his GitHub repo, then we could delete > the mirror. > > We must find a way to "Mavenize" the target binary, otherwise there is no > point in using the W3C Simple DDR and we might have to drop the DDR > features once and for all[?] > > Werner > > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi (Werner mostly as you committed this), >> >> The code under [1] is apparently from W3C, did you have permission >> from whoever owns its copyright to contribute it to this project? >> >> I don't see any license information, and lots of author tags which >> might indicate ownership - or not. >> >> I don't see an urgent need to remove that from our repository, but we >> should find out whether you were actually allowed to copy it here or >> not. >> >> -Bertrand >> >> [1] >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/devicemap/trunk/contrib/w3c/ddr-simple >> > >
