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Stian Soiland-Reyes commented on ODFTOOLKIT-419:
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No, I totally understand the practical reason - it's almost like the olden days
when you would put every *.jar you depended on into lib/ of your source
repository.
I have experienced similar issues myself, e.g. the w3.org "tar-pit" that
super-slows-down any attempts to download the declaration of certain XML
schemas.
Perhaps a good solution would be to package them up outside Apache into a JAR
that is deployed into Maven Central? Then it would be a binary, and Maven would
cache it happily in multiple ways, and it could appear on the classpath and be
fairly easy to add to the build.
Sadly Apache Extras is now kind of defunct, but something like that on GitHub
could be a good way to do it - as I guess working around this by downloading it
from somewhere at apache.org would be dubious..?
We face the same challenge over the ODF schemas in Taverna, as we use the
META-INF/manifest.xml and META-INF/container.xml mechanism. We don't worry too
much about validating, so we can work around it by hand-coding the
corresponding JAXB beans - but I guess in ODF Toolkit the schema files are also
used for validation?
> OASIS-licensed schema files not compatible with ASF policy
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: ODFTOOLKIT-419
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ODFTOOLKIT-419
> Project: ODF Toolkit
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: generator, validator
> Reporter: Stian Soiland-Reyes
> Priority: Critical
> Labels: licensing, oasis, schema
>
> odfdom includes OASIS-licensed schemas in
> https://github.com/apache/odftoolkit/tree/trunk/validator/src/main/resources/schema/odf1.2
> (and siblings)
> Their copyright (but not their license) is declared in
> https://github.com/apache/odftoolkit/blob/trunk/NOTICE#L11
> These files have an OASIS license, which include a BSD-like permissive
> license:
> {quote}
> 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.
> {quote}
> but also a no-modification clause:
> {quote}
> 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.
> {quote}
> As also discussed in LEGAL-111 and TAVERNA-925 the ASF policy is to NOT
> include source code that can't be modified:
> http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#no-modification
> and so I believe the OASIS schema files can't be part of ASF source code
> releases of odfdom -- policy-wise, not legally. (We are legally OK as the
> files have not been modified).
> I am not sure about the license of 1.1 and 1.0 schemas as they don't have
> their license stated in their headers:
> https://github.com/apache/odftoolkit/blob/trunk/validator/src/main/resources/schema/odf1.1/OpenDocument-schema-v1.1.rng
> but their license on
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.1/OS/OpenDocument-v1.1-html/OpenDocument-v1.1.html
> also includes:
> {quote}
> However, this document itself may not be modified in any way (..)
> {quote}
> One workaround would be to include by URL during the build - e.g. from
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/os/
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.1/OS/
> (but no v1.0 version of just the schemas)
> -- of course this means dependency on the docs.oasis-open.org server
> remaining available..
> (The schema files are also present under
> https://github.com/apache/odftoolkit/tree/trunk/generator/schema2template/src/main/resources/examples/odf/odf-schemas
> )
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