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 >
