> On Mar 18, 2016, at 10:29 AM, Stian Soiland-Reyes > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi! > > At https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-241 > the Apache Software Foundation is > trying to figure out what is the license for an ontology > downloaded from > http://www.openannotation.org/spec/core/ > > which says: > >> Copyright © 2012-2013 the Contributors to the Open Annotation Core Data >> Model Specification, published by the Open Annotation Community Group under >> the W3C Community Contributor License Agreement (CLA). A human-readable >> summary is available. > > > However the CLA does not read like a license to readers, but as a CLA > for contributors. Particularly it is very confusing who is "You" and > who the license is granted to (the readers? w3c? Other community > members) > Hi Stian,
Contributors under the CLA [1] grant copyrights described in 2.1 and patent commitments described in 3 and 12.4. “You” means anyone who wants to exercise the rights granted. > Are the discussions from > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-241 considered somewhat > correct? In that as long as the material is at least 45 days old, then > it is safe for Apache Software Foundation to use files like > https://www.w3.org/ns/oa/oa.rdf under a BSD-like license? Yes (derivative works ok, with attribution). Let me know if that’s enough to answer the question, Ian [1] https://www.w3.org/community/about/agreements/cla/ -- Ian Jacobs <[email protected]> http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs Tel: +1 718 260 9447
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