For initial contributions yes, but a merge with an independently maintained OpenDDR project (until DeviceMap leaves the incubator that seems fair, leaving aside some misunderstanding or misinterpreting the usefulness and priority of a truly W3C compliant API) occasionally merged back into this SVN, this is a recurring process from what I see (which is why Bertrand asked me or others who can act on behalf of OpenDDR LLC to do this)
We are not using W3C "source" here now (it was probing the best way to use it, maybe find a chance to get it to MavenCentral somehow, but the WG dissolved at least by 2010, so I don't see how they would do that now), a working and automated way was found to include a JAR into the build process, so that should be solved. Werner On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Kevan Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Werner Keil <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > To make the OpenDDR artifacts, especially resource files available to > > DeviceMap they have to be re-licensed. > > > Showing my ignorance -- wasn't this done when the DeviceMap project was > started? If not, why not? > > > > I trust e.g. Mark Struberg whom I had a great discussion about issues > > DeltaSpike faces in Vienna can tell you in greater Detail, but based on > > especially the question of using Material licensed under W3C license as > > Source in the ASF repo as opposed to using a binary lib (which is fine > and > > done by dozens of projects;-) you may see why only initial committers > from > > the OpenDDR Team (myself and one or two others, see the project page, I > > don't know who else technically became a Committer by now, so I could be > > the only one) are eligable to relicense that IP from OpenDDR license to > > Apache. Once it is here do and improve as you like without violating any > > other legitimate claims but without acting on behalf of OpenDDR or other > > licensors neither Reza nor others must "Copy&Paste" or merge from the > > OpenDDR repo or a similar third Party;-) > > > Please bring explicit licensing questions onto this list. I don't recall > any previous discussions about the suitability of the W3C license for > bringing into ASF svn. W3C licensed source *can* be used within the ASF. > > --kevan >
