Hi all, I was going Apache ODE documentation and found that it is currently licensed under the Apache License, version 2.0 terms&conditions which is extremely non-restrictive ( a BIG thanks to the apache team for this!).
I was going through the WS-BPEL 2.0 standard ( and the earlier versions) and find that the standard itself was produced by 3 or 4 of the majors ( like SAP,MS, IBM etc) and that they *might* have IP rights over certain parts of the standards. I have gone through the Oasis website in detail and also have looked through the Apache ODE mailing list archives and found that that last communication was the send out by Matthieu Riou titled "BPEL IP rights and patent" on the December 7, 2006. This mail seems to suggest that there are no issues on the IPR front. I wanted to check if there was any further news on this front after 2006 and why the Apache ODE license does *NOT* mention IPR/license details of any of the contributors of the standard itself. The background being that I am evaluating Apache ODE for a commercial project and dont want to run into any legal issues. Any light thrown on this subject would be really useful. regards, Krish
