On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton
<[email protected]> wrote:
> From the cover page of the ODF 1.2 specification:
>
> "This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to others, 
> and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it or assist in its 
> implementation may be prepared, copied, published, and distributed, in whole 
> or in part, without restriction of any kind, provided that the above 
> copyright notice and this section are included on all such copies and 
> derivative works. However, this document itself may not be modified in any 
> way, including by removing the copyright notice or references to OASIS, 
> except as needed for the purpose of developing any document or deliverable 
> produced by an OASIS Technical Committee (in which case the rules applicable 
> to copyrights, as set forth in the OASIS IPR Policy, must be followed) or as 
> required to translate it into languages other than English."
>
> That should take care of copies of the specifications bundled in 
> distributions, kept in project repositories etc.
>
> The ODF 1.2 schema files have the same statement in their notices.
>
> Why is this not sufficient?
>

It does not allow distribution of modifications, which is a key
attribute of an open source license.

> It seems more appropriate to obtain from ASF Legal a determination of the 
> class of license this is for the specific purposes that you propose to make 
> of it.
>

We've done that already.  That is why we had to remove the schemas
from the repository and instead download them at build time.   Getting
them to Maven Central would be a more elegant way of doing this.

-Rob

>  - Dennis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Svante Schubert [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 07:28
> To: Biao Han
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Test documents for Signature feature and Maven support for ODF 
> artifacts
>
> Hi Devin,
>
> as you had been the lead developer of the ODF signature feature.
> Would you be curious enough to test if the new signature documents from
> the OpenDocument Interoperability and Conformance OIC TC for signature
> work in our implementation?
> Please take a look at the bottom of
> http://tools.oasis-open.org/version-control/browse/wsvn/oic/Advisories/00008-DSig_Namespaces/trunk/description.html
>
> Those had been mentioned on our today's call.
>
> BTW currently, the ODF TC chair (Rob) is asking permission from OASIS to
> redistribute the ODF RelaxNG schema files on a Maven repository, so we
> do not have to download them for every build of the ODF toolkit -
> requiring Internet access - but once with Maven similar as the OOXML
> schema are downloaded via Maven by the Apache POI project.
> The next step would be to be able to download the specification for
> bundling it within our deployment as documentation and even more
> interesting to be able to download sets of test documents via Maven to
> be able to reuse them cross-project and keeping our repository lean.
>
> Best,
> Svante
>

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